Sublime

Hamer’s descriptions were reminiscent of the diverse ways Black women resisted slavery.68 Similar to enslaved Black women during the nineteenth century, Hamer recognized the power of her individual acts of resistance to slowly chip away at systems of oppression. By wearing the white women’s clothing, using their personal items, and inhabiting their

young woman of conventional middle-class privilege and promise whose situation was such that many people tended to overlook the fact that the state’s case against the accused was not invulnerable.

No Brasil, existem vários movimentos e organizações engajadas em questionar o modelo punitivista e em combater abusos por parte do Estado, como a Iniciativa Negra, a Rede de Proteção e Resistência Contra o Genocídio, o projeto Movimentos, o Instituto de Defesa do Direito de Defesa (IDDD), o Fórum Brasileiro de Segurança Pública, entre outros.

The United States, with less than 5 percent of the global population, has almost 25 percent of the world’s prisoners. One in nine black men between twenty and thirty-four is behind bars. This has effectively decapitated the leadership in the inner cities, where African Americans have traditionally had to react more quickly to confront social injust

But if racism is embedded in our thought processes and social structures as deeply as many crits believe, then the “ordinary business” of society—the routines, practices, and institutions that we rely on to do the world’s work—will keep minorities in subordinate positions. Only aggressive, color-conscious efforts to change the way things are will d

En passe de devenir une figure emblématique, mais controversée, du mouvement africain-américain, Williams va faire de la section locale de la NAACP une véritable « unité de combat10 », essentiellement composée de vétérans expérimentés11, décidée à mettre un terme à l’injustice raciale et à l’« Empire invisible » (terme par lequel s’autodésigne le K