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“From the early 1900s to the late 1960s, Jim Crow segregation laws86 effectively replaced the slave codes and Black codes.”
― Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
― Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
“Ultimately, as Martha Escobar puts it, “(Im)migrant women’s violability is cemented through their assumed violation of the nation-state, constructing them as a public enemy who needs to be disciplined, and, in some cases, killed.”110”
― Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
― Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
“The command “Shut your mouth” stuck out for me, because it is symbolic of how our legal and political system views and expects people of color to behave: quietly. Sandra Bland asked why she was being arrested. Asserting her rights as a woman of color to a white male officer was seen as disruptive and met with an aggressive response. Wearing my traditional South Asian tunic, visibly an immigrant, my mere presence was disruptive as well.”
― Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
― Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color
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