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Toward a Holistic Anti-Violence Agenda: Women of Color as Radical Bridge-Builders

This essay introduces the following one, the “Critical Resistance-Incite! Statement.” Sudbury discusses the challenges facing women of color as they negotiated the radical social movements of the 1970s and 1980s in the United States, and how these challenges changed over the next two decades. In the post-September 11 era, the author notes, many women of color tired of seeking to transform liberal identity-based movements that claim to represent all “women” or “African Americans,” for example, but remain entrenched in the politics of imperial feminism or patriarchal and heterosexist rights for black men. Instead, many have focused their attention in two complementary directions: building their own organizations based on an intersectional analysis of violence, and participating in and building coalitions within issue-based movements, such as the antiwar, prison abolitionist, political prisoner, police brutality, racial profiling, and domestic violence and sexual assault (DVSA) movements. This was the genesis of the Critical Resistance-Incite! Statement.

women, feminism, social movements, antiwar, prison abolitionist, political prisoner, police brutality, racial profiling, and domestic violence and sexual assault (DVSA) movements

Citation: Social Justice Vol. 30, No. 3 (2003): 134-140