When Deaths Are Silenced: The Systematic Omission and Misrepresentation of Black women as Victims of Police Brutality in the US

Lærke Cecilie Anbert

When Deaths Are Silenced: The Systematic Omission and Misrepresentation of Black women as Victims of Police Brutality in the US

Danish School of Education - Department of Educational Anthropology

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Abstract

Black women killed by police in the United States are suspiciously absent in media reporting on the topic of police brutality. The representations of Black women as victims of police violence that do make it into mainstream media, describe the women in stereotypical and problematic tropes. These tropes in effect work to ‘other’ the women in question, and uphold a racial hierarchy.

Original language	English
Newspaper	FRIKTION
Volume	10
Issue	3
Publication status	Published - 2016

Keywords

REPRESENTATION
Policing
police brutality
Gender
Black Lives Matter
invisibility
Stereotypes

Access to Document

http://Black women killed by police in the United States are suspiciously absent in media reporting on the topic of police brutality. The representations of Black women as victims of police violence that do make it into mainstream media, describe the women in stereotypical and problematic tropes. These tropes in effect work to ‘other’ the women in question, and uphold a racial hierarchy.

Cite this

Anbert, L. C. (2016). When Deaths Are Silenced: The Systematic Omission and Misrepresentation of Black women as Victims of Police Brutality in the US. FRIKTION, 10(3). http://Black women killed by police in the United States are suspiciously absent in media reporting on the topic of police brutality. The representations of Black women as victims of police violence that do make it into mainstream media, describe the women in stereotypical and problematic tropes. These tropes in effect work to ‘other’ the women in question, and uphold a racial hierarchy.

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