Book 2 Post 2
For Book 2 I chose to read Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color. I was originally attracted to this book because police brutality against people of color has been a center-stage issue recently. There has been a lot of light on cases of blatant police brutality against people of color. The cases in the news are shocking. It is hard to understand how this could happen in what we think to be an advanced, modernized and progressed society. It is equally hard to understand how these cases could happen more than once. The fact that a horrible police brutality injustice occurred once and immediate change wasn't made is hard to understand. I liked this book because of its focus on women of color. In the media and even television and movies there is a heavy focus on police brutality against men. I liked that Ritchie forced readers to pay attention to the fact that women of color are disproportionally affected by police brutality. She...