yue ☽’s Reviews > The Violence of Protection: Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women > Status Update

"if legal protections for survivors are bound to policing mechanisms, the universalism of the victim subject remains race and gender neutral toward criminalization lodged within the corpus of white humanity"

"VAWA’s safety cannot escape its anti-­ Black form within modern American law because it relies on policing, and policing is structured through the systemic criminalization of Black people."