Bordered Violence: Black Women on the Cincinnati Urban Reservation

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Abstract

Borders not only confine mobility, narrows social networks and isolates poverty, they also fundamentally shape life chances and life quality. Cincinnati is the 8th most segregated city in the US. The spatial confinement of Blacks across the city reflects a legacy of structural violence. On the urban rez, housing insecurity, the constant threat of dislocation, and violence shape the lives of Cincinnati Black women in profound ways. However, violence is a heterogeneous phenomenon that affects women in different ways (Price 2012). I examine intersections of structural, spatial and interpersonal violence in Black women’s lives.

Presenter

• Carolette Norwood, University of Cincinnati