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Angela Davis’ ”Women, Race, & Class” (Part 3/3)

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Black Women's Sexual Assault

In feminist as well we are taking up these claims or they believe this stuff like Gertrude Stein or Schulamit Firestone who naturalized the perception of black women's subordination and black men's over aggressive sexuality. So encouraged policing and encouraged stricter rules and punishments in the case of sexual assault were a way by which to enforce further policing over black men and the black community more generally. The societal disregard for black women's experiences with sexual assault reveals society's complicity with this extension of slavery of this arm of slave power to control black women's bodies.

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