Quiz 6

A  Leaderless is often a label BLM encounters from that older civil rights organizations because BLM activists includes black women and queer people, groups who have been made invisible by the older organizations

B  All of these

C  The labeling of BLM as leaderless overlooks how women are deliberately leading without suggesting they are the only leaders or that there is one way to lead

D  Leaderless organizations can’t do the work of that an organization like BLM carries out

A  actively relies on community strength rather than dependence on a single establishment voice

B  it is a movement mostly led by young people who have called out older establishment civil rights organizations for their organizing tactics

C  Activists do not manage or engage in slick manipulation of the image of the movement

D  Its three founders make all the key decision for BLM

A  BLM has made gendered police violence against cisgender and trans women, and the criminalization of poor black women and how that affects their families and communities key issues

B  Organizers consciously resist the mistakes of previous movements, especially the classism and sexism that all too often shaped the direction of older civil rights and feminist struggles.

C  All of these

D  The movement is open to other movements like the battles against mass incarceration and mass deportation in order to advance a deeper understand of issues that resonate across different communities.

A  Police don’t come to the aid of black female victims of domestic violence unless they are young couples fighting

B  Domestic violence is not the leading cause of death of Black women so it is usually not well understood as a problem

C  None of these

D  Given the violence of law enforcement and the reality of mass incarceration, there is a tension in addressing domestic violence against Black women

A  It interrogates state power

B  All of these

C  It critiques structural inequality

D  It refuses the framing of black lives to mean men’s lives or cis gender lives or respectable lives

A  Black male run efforts at ending police violence have increasingly learned to prioritize black women and girls in their problem solving efforts

B  The work around police violence has focused on marketing Black women’s death

C  None of these

D  An entire industry has emerged aimed at saving, rehabilitating and disciplining men of color and has attracted stated funding and enriched some leaders of color and their organizations

A  All of these

B  That the kind of violence Black women suffer at the hands of police also happens to them in other sites like the streets and detention centers

C  Black women have been targets of police violence historically, especially in their role as civil rights activists as was the case with Fannie Lou Hamer

D  Like violence against women at large, police violence against Black women usually takes place inside their homes and in private spaces where people cannot see them or galvanize around them

A  They Black women are mostly sexually harassed while Black men are mostly killed

B  None of these

C  That Black women are targeted in similar way to Black men. That Black women are targeted at the similar rates as Black men

D  That there was national data on police killing but that it was mostly ignored

E  That Black women are targeted in similar way to Black men. That there was national data on police killing but that it was mostly ignored

A  It was founded by Black women

B  All of these

C  Women are at the forefront of putting their bodies on the line in the movement

D  Young queer women are central in the organizing and strategizing of the organization

A  Argues that there are distinctly gendered ways that police violence is applied to Black people

B  Highlights what is lost when we ignore black women victims of police violence

C  Documents and analyzes black women’s experiences of police violence

D  All of these