How are Indigenous women’s bodies the raw material for the making of states? What is the relationship between globalization and racial violence? How is sexualized violence central to colonial and neo-colonial regimes?
View the following cases on RDIC:
Readings:
- Sherene Razack, “Gendered Racial Violence and Spatialized Justice” in Race, Space and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2002. OR “Gendered Racial Violence and Spatialized Justice: The Murder of Pamela George.” Canadian Journal of Law and Society 15. 2 (2000): 91-130.
- Sherene Razack, “Settler Colonialism, Policing and Racial Terror: The Police Shooting of Loreal Tsingine.” Feminist Legal Studies (2020): 1-20.
- Stormy Ogden, “Ex-Prisoner Pomo Woman Speaks Out.” Social Justice 31.4 (2004): 63-69.
For additional reading, see:
- Sarah Deer, “Relocation Revisited: Sex Trafficking of Native Women in the U.S.” William Mitchell Law Review Vol. 1, 36. 2 (2010): 622-983.
- Cheryl Redhorse Bennett, “Another Type of Hate Crime: Violence Against American Indian Women in Reservation Border Towns“
- Sherene Razack, “Gendering Disposability.” Canadian Journal of Women and the Law
Note: Featured Photo from the Lakota Times by Jim Kent, “Red Dress Exhibit Draws Attention to MMIW”