Andrea J. Ritchie is a writer, lawyer, and activist for women of color, especially LGBTQ women of color, who have been victims of police violence.[1][2] An abolitionist, her activism consists of demand for the elimination of police and prisons.[3] She is the author of Invisible No More, a history of state violence against women of color, and co-author of No More Police: A Case for Abolition with Mariame Kaba.
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| Alma mater | Cornell University Howard University (JD) |
| Occupation(s) | Author, lawyer, activist |
| Notable work | Invisible No More |
Education
editRitchie attended Cornell University and Howard University School of Law.[4] She clerked for Judge Emmet G. Sullivan on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.[5]
Career
editRitchie is a Researcher-in-Residence at the Social Justice Institute at the Barnard Center for Research on Women.[6] Her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Teen Vogue, and Essence.[7][8][9] In 2018, Ritchie co-authored the report SayHerName: Police Violence against Black Women and Women of Color with Kimberlé Crenshaw and the African American Policy Forum (Haymarket 2016).[10] In 2022 she published No More Police: A Case for Abolition which she co-authored with Mariame Kaba. In No More Police she provides some details on events in her life that made her a prison and police abolitionist, lays out arguments for why policing should be abolished, and discusses methods of creating safety without police.[11]
Invisible No More
editIn 2017, Ritchie published Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color.[1][12] In it, she gives a history of often-obscured state violence against women of color in the United States, beginning in the colonial period and continuing through the present, discussing how the historical precedent established current conditions.[13] She ties practices in colonialism, slavery and Jim Crow to contemporary policing frameworks including broken windows policing and the wars on drugs, immigration, and terror.[14] In a review for Policing and Society, Robert Nicewarner found four major contributions Ritchie made with the book: demonstrating the historically contingent and structural nature of police violence against women of color; the development of “mixed” methodology interweaving statistics and personal stories; demonstrating the insufficiency of police response to violence against women of color; and demonstrating the “dire need to resist and reform” these issues.[14]
Bibliography
edit- No More Police: A Case of Abolition, co-authored with Mariame Kaba, The New Press, 2022. ISBN 9781620977323
- Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, Beacon Press, 2017. ISBN 9780807088982
- Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States, co-authored with Joey Mogul and Kay Whitlock, Beacon Press, 2012. ISBN 9780807051153
References
edit- ^ a b Corley, Cheryl (2017-11-05). "'Invisible No More' Examines Police Violence Against Minority Women". NPR.org. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
- ^ Ritchie, Andrea J.; Maynard, Robyn (2020-04-09). "Black Communities Need Support, Not a Coronavirus Police State". Vice. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
- ^ "'No More Police' Shows Abolitionists Are the Actual Realists". Teen Vogue. 2023-01-13. Retrieved 2023-04-10.
- ^ "Andrea Ritchie". Open Society Foundations. Retrieved 2017-11-17.
- ^ "Andrea Ritchie: Policing Gender, Policing Sex, Policing RaceEvents". www.scrippscollege.edu. 30 October 2015. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
- ^ "2018 Women's History Month Keynote Lecture presented by Andrea J. Ritchie | Institute for Women's Studies". iws.uga.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-08.
- ^ Ritchie, Andrea J. (19 June 2018). "How a Violent, Viral Arrest Changed Dajerria Becton's Life". Teen Vogue. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
- ^ Ritchie, Andrea J. (2017-07-21). "Opinion | A Warrant to Search Your Vagina". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
- ^ Kaba, Mariame; Ritchie, Andrea J. (July 16, 2020). "We Want More Justice For Breonna Taylor Than The System That Killed Her Can Deliver". Essence. Retrieved 2020-07-21.
- ^ Crenshaw, Kimberle (2018-06-20). "SAY HER NAME: Resisting Police Brutality against Black Women". aapf.org/. Retrieved 2018-06-20.
- ^ Kaba, Mariame; Ritchie, Andrea (2022). No More Police: A Case for Abolition. The New Press. ISBN 9781620977323.
- ^ Haynes, Christina S. (2019-09-01). "Andrea J. Ritchie, Invisible No More: Policing Violence against Black Women and Women of Color". The Journal of African American History. 104 (4): 714–717. doi:10.1086/705274. ISSN 1548-1867. S2CID 210549437.
- ^ Tensley, Brandon (6 September 2017). "'Invisible No More' Is a Chilling History of Police Violence Against Women of Color". Pacific Standard. Retrieved 2021-01-19.
- ^ a b Nicewarner, Robert L. (2019-09-02). "Invisible no more: police violence against Black women and women of color". Policing and Society. 29 (7): 869–871. doi:10.1080/10439463.2019.1650746. ISSN 1043-9463. S2CID 201393713.