TY  - BOOK
AU  - Friedarike Santner
PY  - 2003
CY  - München, Germany
PB  - GRIN Verlag
SN  - 9783638173056
TI  - How Domestic Violence and Political Activism are Related. A Case Study on African-American Women
DO  - 10.3239/9783638173056
UR  - https://www.hausarbeiten.de/document/11037
N2  - Already before studying social and cultural anthropology and political science, I was an enthusiastic reader of African-American novelists, especially those authored by James Baldwin, and having viewed racism as one form of marginalization and exclusion, I wanted to learn and gain knowledge about this phenomenon and enrolled for these two disciplines. Specializing on African politics in my study, I nevertheless remained interested in the African-American experience and decided to write my thesis on an issue that would be in some proximity to the latter.  Through contacts with African-American social and political activists, I finally encountered an issue that I wanted to tackle, it is a circumstance that, in my view then, constituted a contradiction, the gap between the enormous political and social activism of African-American women and on the other hand the high rate of domestic violence and sexual assault in U.S. Black communities.
KW  - domestic violence, political actrivism
LA  - English
ER  -