Reviewed by Sharmila Rudrappa | Reviews | Journal of American Ethnic History, 28.3

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*Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology*. Edited by Incite! Women of Color Against Violence. Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2006. 325 pp. Notes and index. $20.00 (cloth).
Since the 1970s, there has been a tremendous amount of activism and academic writing about violence against women, contributing to a growing recognition that the personal is indeed political and that the private sphere of the home is sometimes racked by gender inequalities and violence. In the United States, most of this scholarship is conducted under the rubric of domestic violence. Yet, in a strange contradiction, the politicization of domestic violence has led to the perverse depoliticization of violence against women. In the now mainstream domestic violence movement in the United States, partner violence is often seen as the only form of violence that all women potentially face; as such, the only way to save women is to have the state step in by maintaining police on shelter premises, facilitating orders of protection, and engendering other kinds of legal recourses to save women from violence in their lives. Thus, the violence that women face is considered to be primarily familial, with only the state being able to save women from their private hells.	1
Within this context, it is exciting to see Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology. The subjects of the essays include trans- and gender-nonconforming persons, Native American and immigrant women, and the war on so-called terror, and they problematize not just the family, but the state in all its patriarchal apathy and rage. At issue is not only the individual—often male—abuser but as well the elephant in the room that is the seemingly benign state. Bringing in women of color makes it apparent that the communities from which they emerge are fundamentally scarred by state violence. Hence, by addressing the concerns of women of color, these essays re-politicize antiviolence work.	. . .

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