By Gail Garfield
''Knowing What we all know deals readers an extraordinary and beneficial chance to go back and forth with African American girls as they go through the emotional and bureaucratic maze that surrounds their stories of violence and victimization.''—Beth E. Richie, writer of forced to Crime
''This paintings makes a particular contribution to the feminist literature on violence opposed to ladies. the writer contains riveting money owed in regards to the lives of 9 African American girls and emphasizes differing sorts of ‘violation and violence’ that they have got experienced.''—Traci West, writer of Wounds of the Spirit: Black ladies, Violence, and Resistance Ethics
In fresh years there was an test by way of activists, provider services, and feminists to contemplate violence opposed to ladies in additional inclusive methods. In realizing What we all know, activist and sociologist Gail Garfield argues that this attempt has now not long past a ways adequate and that during order to appreciate violence, we needs to take the lived reviews of African American girls heavily. Doing so, she cautions, is going a ways past easily including voices of black ladies to latest educational and activist discourses, yet quite, calls for a thorough shift in our wisdom of those women’s lives and the rhetoric used to explain them.
Bringing jointly a sequence of life-history interviews with 9 ladies, this certain research urges a departure from verified ways that place ladies as sufferers of completely male violence. as a substitute, Garfield explores what occurs while women’s skill to make judgements and act upon these offerings comes into clash with cultural and social constraints. Chapters discover how ladies event racialized or class-based violence, how those different types of violence are relating to gendered violence, and what those violations suggest to a woman’s feel of identification. by means of displaying how ladies retain, maintain, and in a few cases regain their feel of human worthy because of their stories of violation, Garfield complicates the present discussion on violence opposed to girls in new and demanding methods.
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Special categories are established to specifically address barriers to access. Yet those categories neither challenge nor provide an oppositional meaning for violence against women within the discourse. ” In the government-sponsored discourse the development of special categories is seen as an obvious way to address historical impediments that inhibit greater inclusion. Instead, they really are “humanly created conceptual boxes” based on ideas and politics that structure women’s realities (Yanow 2003).
With this view in mind, let us consider the importance of how women are positioned in their interactions with their environments; for this also contributes to the meaning they give to their subjective experiences. Eduardo Mendieta uses the term “positionality” (Alcott and Mendieta 2003). This is not just the variety of roles and statuses that women assume in the process of living, although this is implied. Instead, the various cultural and social locations women occupy in their interactions are created by ever-changing historical circumstances that position their experiences.
Only then are we able to preserve the integrity of their experiences with an understanding that African American women are who they are because of their subjective experiences. This book is about the specific conversations I had with nine African American women, who generously offered their reflections on what they know to be true about their lives. Through life history interviews, they framed their perceptions of reality within the context of daily life. Their particular narratives of “what really happened” are inexplicably linked to what it means to be black-and-female in America.
