The Secrets of Silence: The Everyday Policing of Black Women and Their Stories about Violence

Why black women’s stories of encounters with the police are missing from official and unofficial accounts of police violence

In The Secrets of Silence, Shannon Malone Gonzalez investigates how the policing of black women is tied to the policing of their stories. Over a period of four years, Malone Gonzalez conducted intimate life-history interviews with black women about their encounters, listening to those who had never shared their stories before, had never even been asked to, or had tried...