Reading Assignment Template Class 6 CGS 105 Summer 2019 –
Due 1100am Thursday July 18 (upload the completed template as a pdf to website, or if you can’t get that to work, e-mail the completed template to the instructors.
Instructions: Please summarize each paragraph of Ferguson and Ritchie below and answer the three questions below these summaries.

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Roderick A. Ferguson (2004) Aberrations in Black, Towards A Queer of Color Critique, 1-18.
1. In Marlon Rigg's Tongues Untied,

2. This scene captures the defining

3. The scene, thus, represents the social

4. The preceding paragraphs suggest

5. In “Home, Houses, Nonidentity: 'Paris is Burning,'”

6. By identifying the nation as the domain

7. In doing so, queer of color critique

8 As an epistemological intervention,

9 By relating queer of color subjects and practices

10. As queer of color analysis claims

11. Addressing the silences within Marx's

12. As empiricism grants authority to representation,

13. An ideology has gathered in the silences

14. Marx universalized heteropatriarchy as he theorized

15. For Marx, tribal ownership presumed

16. In addition, Marx characterized communal

17. The property relations presumed within tribal

18. If a racially secured and dependent

19. The commodity disrupts the moral

20. For Marx, the symbol of that dehumanization

21. The prostitute proves capital's defilement

22. It was precisely this sort of eruption that bourgeouis

23. More to the point, pundits understood

24. The universalization of heteropatriarchy produces

25. As such, she and others like her were the targets

26. Naturalizing heteropatriarchy by posing capital

27. Queer of color analysis can build

28. Capital is a formation constituted

29. While Marx, like his liberal antagonists,

30. For Marx, the state establishes its universality

31. The universality of the citizen exists

32. Ironically, capital helps produce formations

33. The gendered and eroticized history of US

34. As capital solicited Mexican, Asian,

35. Despite his naturalization of gender, sexuality, and race,

36. In the United States, racial groups who

37. As capital produced surplus populations,

38. Marx addresses many of the ways in which

39. As well as exceeding local and regional

40. Surplus populations point to a fundamental feature

41. Capital is based on a fundamentally amoral

42. While capital can only reproduce itself

42. Nonheteronormative racial formations represent

Andrea J Ritchie (2017) Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, Beacon Press, Chapter 5, Police Sexual Violence, p 104-126.

43. “What is the first image that comes to mind

44. At the 2004 National Coalition on Police

45. At my next workshop, a daylong

46. Similarly, as we were conducting research

47. Almost a decade later, Oklahoma

48. Holtzclaw's pattern of sexual violence

49. Most women Holtzclaw targeted said he

50. Holtzclaw was tried and convicted in December

51. The case prompted the Associated Press

52. Daniel Holtzclaw is far from the first

53. Echoes of the Magaña case resonated

54. The widespread, systemic, and almost routine

55. The reasons for the seemingly

56. Invisibility is also perpetuated in part

57. Even when a woman takes the risk

58. As a result, researchers almost universally

59. Following a rash of reports in 2009 and 2010

60. Others have included with the definition of police

61. Researchers also emphasize that police sexual violence

62. Using media reports, arrest records, and civil

63. Police sexual violence takes place in locations

64. The pattern of officers targeting women

65. A 2003 update to Driving While Female

66. Another frequent site of sexual violence

67. The issue of sexual violence in the context

68. Additionally, local law enforcement officers

69. Eithne Luibhéid argues that

70. Often, when I speak about police

71. Beyond targeting survivors of

72. Shakina Thompson read about the case and

73. Police holding facilities are also prevalent

74. Within and beyond these specific sites

75. Consistent with the notion that police use

76. In October 2012 in El Monte, California,

77. Police also enforce gender norms by using

78. Much of the information about police sexual violence

79. Unlike incidents of excessive force,

80. Beyond rape and sexual assaults as conventionally

81. In the context of the war on drugs,

82. Similar perceptions of Indigenous and Latinx

83. At other times, strip and cavity searches

84. What can and should we be doing to prevent

85. As an initial step, we need to create

86. In light of the many obstacles survivors face

87. Until we are able to take police out of the

88. We need to fully integrate the issue of

89. Antiviolence advocates must also take up the charge.

90. Beyond police advocacy, what does it look

91. Although local and national women's groups

GENERAL QUESTIONS
A. Citing specific passages in Ritchie, describe how Queer of Color Analysis, as explained in Ferguson, can be used to better understand the persistence and targets of police sexual violence.

B. Locate specific passages in the selections written by Alicia Garza and Treva B. Lindsey that resonate with the following terms (you might not find a resonance with all of the terms):
power; resistance; repression; co-optation; accommodation; autonomy; creativity; solidarity; assimilation; militancy; subversion; story-telling; counter-discourses; agency.

C. Why is it integral for queer resistance to center anti-blackness?