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Beth E. Richie is head of the Department of Criminology, Law and Justice and Professor of Black Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her books include Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence and America’s Prison Nation.
The authors of Abolition. Feminism. Now. discuss why racialized state violence and gender-based violence have to be fought together.
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