Summary
Using examples from the lives of immigrant girls and women of colour, this book explores the links between race, gender and violence, how accepted definitions of race and gender shape and influence public consciousness, and how media representations of violence fail to tell the whole story about racialized and gendered inequalities.
Contents
1. Reframing violence. -- 2. Mapping race in the media. -- 3. Erasing race: the story of Reena Virk. -- 4. Culturalizing violence and the Vernon “massacre”. -- 5. Racialized girls and everyday negotiations. -- 6. Gendered racism, sexist violence, and the health care system. -- 7. Gendering terror post-9/11