Secrets of Silence
Why black women’s stories of encounters with the police are missing from official and unofficial accounts of police violence
In The Secrets of Silence, Shannon Malone Gonzalez investigates how the policing of black women is tied to the policing of their stories. Over a period of four years, Malone Gonzalez conducted intimate life-history interviews with black women about their encounters, listening...
Why black women’s stories of encounters with the police are missing from official and unofficial accounts of police violence
In The Secrets of Silence, Shannon Malone Gonzalez investigates how the policing of black women is tied to the policing of their stories. Over a period of four years, Malone Gonzalez conducted intimate life-history interviews with black women about their encounters, listening...
