{"id":5395,"date":"2021-06-18T11:45:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T11:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5395"},"modified":"2021-06-18T11:45:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T11:45:13","slug":"why-black-women-are-often-missing-from-conversations-about-police-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5395","title":{"rendered":"Why Black Women Are Often Missing From Conversations About Police Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n“Women account for less than 4 percent of fatal police shootings, but according to our analysis of the Post\u2019s data, almost 20 percent of the women fatally shot by police are Black, even though Black women make up only around 13 percent of women in the U.S. And since 2015, when the Post first began tracking fatal police shootings, at least 51 Black women have been killed. Half of those women have gotten some national media attention in the 60 days surrounding their death, according to FiveThirtyEight\u2019s analysis of media reports, but in most cases, the coverage is limited \u2014 five stories or fewer.”
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“Researchers at Brookings Institution and the University of Maryland analyzed nearly 300 phrases used as Twitter hashtags<\/a> between August 2014 and August 2015, a year after the killing<\/a> of 18-year-old Michael Brown. Though these hashtags are often used to name Black victims of police brutality<\/a>, not one specifically mentioned a Black woman or girl. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMainstream narratives are often still written by men or are tailored toward a male perspective,\u201d said\u00a0Keisha Blain<\/a>, a history professor at the University of Pittsburgh and the president of the African American Intellectual History Society. \u201cFor these reasons, among others, Black women\u2019s experiences with police violence are too often marginalized.\u201d”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/why-black-women-are-often-missing-from-conversations-about-police-violence\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Women account for less than 4 percent of fatal police shootings, but according to our analysis of the Post\u2019s data, almost 20 percent of the women fatally shot by police are Black, even though Black women make up only around 13 percent of women in the U.S. And since 2015, when the Post first began tracking fatal police shootings, at least 51 Black women have been killed. Half of those women have gotten some national media attention in the 60 days surrounding their death, according to FiveThirtyEight\u2019s analysis of media reports, but in most cases, the coverage is limited \u2014 five stories or fewer.”<\/p>\n

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“Researchers at Brookings Institution and the University of Maryland analyzed nearly 300 phrases used as Twitter hashtags between August 2014 and August 2015, a year after the killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown. Though these hashtags are often used to name Black victims of police brutality, not one specifically mentioned a Black woman or girl. <\/p>\n

\u201cMainstream narratives are often still written by men or are tailored toward a male perspective,\u201d said Keisha Blain, a history professor at the University of Pittsburgh and the president of the African American Intellectual History Society. \u201cFor these reasons, among others, Black women\u2019s experiences with police violence are too often marginalized.\u201d”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[56,53,188,192,285,642,1290,1098],"class_list":["post-5395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-black","tag-deaths","tag-killed","tag-killing","tag-police","tag-race","tag-shooting","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5396,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5395\/revisions\/5396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}