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UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES

PRESENTS

FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES
ON AFRICAN AMERICAN
AND NATIVE AMERICAN
REPARATIONS


OPEN FORUM
FRIDAY, MARCH 19
ANGELL HALL
AUDITORIUM B
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

7PM - 9:30PM

SPEAKERS:
ADJOA AIYETORO, N'COBRA
PATRICIA ALLARD, N'COBRA
WILLETTA DOLPHUS (LAKOTA), BOARDING SCHOOL HEALING PROJECT
SARAH DEER (MUSCOGEE) TRIBAL LAW AND POLICY INSTITUTE
ALISA BIERRIA, COMMUNITIES AGAINST RAPE AND ABUSE
ANDREA SMITH (CHEROKEE), UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

MODERATOR:
ANDREA RITCHIE, INCITE! WOMEN OF COLOR AGAINST VIOLENCE


This forum will address some of the analysis and strategies that might
develop when one centers African American and Native American women within
reparations struggle. That is, one of the human rights violations
perpetrated by state policy in the forms of slavery and boarding schools
has been sexual violence perpetrated by both slave masters and boarding
school officials. However, continuing effect of this human rights
violation has been the internalization of sexual and other forms of gender
violence within African and Native American communities. Can a reparations
framework speak to the specific types of harms that women of color have
suffered? If so, how? Are there demands around reparations for the types
of continuing effects of human rights violations that are evidenced by
violence within communities, but are nonetheless colonial
legacies? Furthermore, how can an analysis that frames gender violence as
a continuing effect of human rights violations perpetrated by state policy
challenge the mainstream anti-domestic/sexual violence movement to directly
challenge state-sponsored sexual violence as central to its work?



for more information: Andrea Smith, 734-231-1845

co-sponsors: CAAS, Native American Students Association, Institute for
Research on Women and Gender, Women's Studies, Detroit Chapter National
Lawyer's Guild, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, LSA Research and
Graduate Studies, Black Law Students Association, National Lawyers Guild (U
of Michigan Law School)