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Solidarity and Defiant Spirituality - Africana Lessons on Religion, Racism, and Ending Gender Violence (Paperback)
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Solidarity and Defiant Spirituality - Africana Lessons on Religion, Racism, and Ending Gender Violence (Paperback)
Series: Religion and Social Transformation
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How activists in Ghana, South Africa, and Brazil provide
inspiration and strategies for combating the gender violence
epidemic in the United States How can the U.S. learn from the
perspectives of anti-gender violence activists in South America and
Africa as we seek to end intimate violence in this country? The
U.S. has consistently positioned itself as a moral exemplar,
seeking to export its philosophy and values to other societies. Yet
in this book, Traci C. West argues that the U.S. has much to learn
from other countries when it comes to addressing gender-based
violence. West traveled to Ghana, South Africa, and Brazil to
interview activists involved in the struggle against gender
violence. In each of these places, as in the United States,
Christianity and anti-black racism have been implicated in violence
against women. In Ghana and Brazil, in particular, their Christian
colonial and trans-Atlantic slave trade histories directly connect
with the socioeconomic development of the Americas and historic
incidents of rape of black slave women. With a transnational focus
on religion and racism, West brings a new perspective to efforts to
systemically combat gender violence. Calling attention to forms of
violence in the U.S. and international settings, such as marital
rape, sex trafficking of women and girls, domestic violence, and
the targeting of lesbians, the book offers an expansive and nuanced
view of how to form activist solidarity in tackling this violence.
It features bold and inspiring approaches by black women leaders
working in each setting to uproot the myriad forms of violence
against women and girls. Ultimately, West calls for us to learn
from the lessons of Africana activists, drawing on a defiant
Africana spirituality as an invaluable resource in the quest to
combat the seemingly chronic problem of gender-based violence.
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