Papers by Salamishah Tillet
Women & Therapy, 2002
The intersection of racism and sexism within the African American community has privileged the bo... more The intersection of racism and sexism within the African American community has privileged the bodies of Black men over the bodies of Black women. Oftentimes, violent crimes against Black women become issues of African American racial division rather than of solidarity. I propose that we change our racial schema, in which issues of police brutality and racial profiling overshadow the continual trauma of Black women's bodies by Black men. I suggest these issues no longer be seen as distinctly separate or divisive, but that we create a world in which Black men and Black women have absolute authority of their bodies.
Research in African Literatures, 2009
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Papers by Salamishah Tillet