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Surviving the Silence

Black Women's Stories of Rape

Charlotte Pierce-Baker

ISBN: 9780393320459
Format: Paperback
Publisher:WW Norton & Co
Edition: New edition


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Pierce-Baker, a victim of rape, tells her story and that of other African- American women who were sexually molested by male relatives during childhood, subjected to "acquaintance rape" or assaulted by strangers. These narratives tell of black women's survival after sexual violence.

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It opens with the author's harrowing and courageous account of her rape and includes the stories of the author's own family's response, plus the voices of black men who have supported rape survivors.
 
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