Andrea Ritchie
Andrea Ritchie | |
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| Alma mater | Cornell University Howard University School of Law |
| Occupation(s) | Author, lawyer, activist |
| Notable work | Invisible No More |
Andrea J. Ritchie is a writer, lawyer, and activist for women of color, especially LGBTQ women of color, who have been victims of police violence.[1][2] She is the author of Invisible No More, a history of state violence against women of color.
Education
Ritchie attended Cornell University and Howard University School of Law.[3] She clerked for Judge Emmet G. Sullivan on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.[4]
Career
Ritchie is a Researcher-in-Residence at the Social Justice Institute at the Barnard Center for Research on Woman.[5] Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Teen Vogue, and Essence.[6][7][8] In 2018, Ritchie co-authored the report SayHerName: Police Violence against Black Women and Women of Color with Kimberle Crenshaw and the African American Policy Forum (Haymarket 2016).[9]
Invisible No More
In 2017, Ritchie published Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color.[1][10] In it, she gives a history of often-obscured state violence against women of color in the United States, beginning in the colonial period and continuing through the present, discussing how the historical precedent established current conditions.[11] She ties practices in colonialism, slavery and Jim Crow to contemporary policing frameworks including broken windows policing and the wars on drugs, immigration, and terror.[12] In a review for Policing and Society, Robert Nicewarner found four major contributions Ritchie made with the book: demonstrating the historically-contingent and structural nature of police violence against women of color; the development of “mixed” methodology interweaving statistics and personal stories; demonstrating the insufficiency of police response to violence against women of color; and demonstrating the “dire need to resist and reform” these issues.[12]
References
- ^ a b Corley, Cheryl (2017-11-05). "'Invisible No More' Examines Police Violence Against Minority Women". NPR.org. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
- ^ Ritchie, Andrea J.; Maynard, Robyn (2020-04-09). "Black Communities Need Support, Not a Coronavirus Police State". Vice. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Andrea Ritchie". Open Society Foundations. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
- ^ "Andrea Ritchie: Policing Gender, Policing Sex, Policing RaceEvents". www.scrippscollege.edu. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
- ^ "2018 Women's History Month Keynote Lecture presented by Andrea J. Ritchie | Institute for Women's Studies". iws.uga.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
- ^ Ritchie, Andrea J. "How a Violent, Viral Arrest Changed Dajerria Becton's Life". Teen Vogue. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
- ^ Ritchie, Andrea J. (2017-07-21). "Opinion | A Warrant to Search Your Vagina". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
- ^ Kaba, Mariame; Ritchie, Andrea J. (July 16, 2020). "We Want More Justice For Breonna Taylor Than The System That Killed Her Can Deliver". Essence. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Crenshaw, Kimberle (2018-06-20). "SAY HER NAME: Resisting Police Brutality against Black Women". aapf.org/. Retrieved 2018-06-20.
- ^ Haynes, Christina S. (2019-09-01). "Andrea J. Ritchie, Invisible No More: Policing Violence against Black Women and Women of Color". The Journal of African American History. 104 (4): 714–717. doi:10.1086/705274. ISSN 1548-1867.
- ^ Tensley, Brandon. "'Invisible No More' Is a Chilling History of Police Violence Against Women of Color". Pacific Standard. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
- ^ a b Nicewarner, Robert L. (2019-09-02). "Invisible no more: police violence against Black women and women of color". Policing and Society. 29 (7): 869–871. doi:10.1080/10439463.2019.1650746. ISSN 1043-9463.
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