“Color of Violence”, Chapters in Part Two and Three

"Color of violence" comes as an essential intervention in the war against women of color. Part two of this book titled Forms of Violence it has 14cahpters. This part comes after the first part has made us understand the violence targeted towards women; the part makes it important to address the forms in which violence is perpetrated towards women specifically focusing on the way such kind of violence is propagated by the state. Forms of violence disclosed to as the kind of violence netted towards women that are quite often disregarded when it comes to scholarships and traditional activism. Law Enforcement Violence against Women of Color; by Andrea Ritchie’s conflicts the idea that the criminal justice system can protect women effectively. Four Generations in Resistance, by Dana Erekat, addresses the impact that military violence meted against North African women. Aishah Simmons’s “The War Against Black Women, and the Making of NO!,” traces all the eleven years it took her to make her powerful and revolutionary film addressing black women and sexual assault and the fierce resistance chronicles and activism that was resourceful black women have continually drawn that.

The chapters in the third part answer the question of the kind of strategies necessary to end violence against women who are of color in all forms evident. In as much as there isn’t a simple solution to these issues, part three of the book “building movement “contains essays that explore strategies that come as a challenge to the power of the state. In “Disloyal to Feminism: Abuse of Survivors with the Domestic Violence Shelter System,” by Emi Koyama, he presents a critique that is bold that the system for domestic violence reflects the dynamic abuse which the same operation wishes to do away. Puneet Kaur Chawla Sahota gives a demonstration that the work we are doing currently against violence comes from women of color legacy who created a space way ahead of us.