Results for "West, Traci C."

How activists in Ghana, South Africa, and Brazil provide inspiration and strategies for combating the gender violence epidemic in the United States How can the U.S. learn from the perspectives of anti-gender violence activists in South America and Africa as we seek to end intimate violence in thi... Read More about Solidarity and Defiant Spirituality: Africana Lessons on Religion, Racism, and Ending Gender Violence (Religion and Social Transformation #4)

A collection of first-person accounts documenting a historical legacy of violence against black women in the U.S. In Wounds of the Spirit, Traci West employs first person accounts-from slave narratives to contemporary interviews to Tina Turner's autobiography-to document a historical legacy of vio... Read More about Wounds of the Spirit: Black Women, Violence, and Resistance Ethics

This book brings to the fore the difficult realities of racism and the sexual violation of women. Traci West argues for a liberative method of Christian social ethics in which the discussion begins not with generic philosophical concepts but in the concrete realities of the lives of the socially and... Read More about Disruptive Christian Ethics: When Racism and Women's Lives Matter

How activists in Ghana, South Africa, and Brazil provide inspiration and strategies for combating the gender violence epidemic in the United States How can the U.S. learn from the perspectives of anti-gender violence activists in South America and Africa as we seek to end intimate violence in thi... Read More about Solidarity and Defiant Spirituality: Africana Lessons on Religion, Racism, and Ending Gender Violence (Religion and Social Transformation #4)

This is a selection of writings on themes of trauma and transformation, hope and anguish, in a time of reckoning. The first section offers biographical fragments about life after the "bulldozer" runs you over. How do you get up? How do you live with others who don't understand? How do you keep walki... Read More about Breaking Through the Plate Glass Window-Prophetic Fragments

This is a selection of writings on themes of trauma and transformation, hope and anguish, in a time of reckoning. The first section offers biographical fragments about life after the "bulldozer" runs you over. How do you get up? How do you live with others who don't understand? How do you keep walki... Read More about Breaking Through the Plate Glass Window-Prophetic Fragments