Surviving The Silence Black Women's Stories Of Rape

Description

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.

In this "intelligent", "stunning", and "honest" book, Charlotte Pierce-Baker weaves together the accounts of black women who have been raped and who have felt that they had to remain silent in order to protect themselves and their race.

Reviews

Surviving the Silence should be required reading for every woman and the men who love them. -- USA Today, Sharon Shahid

A book of such intelligent humanity its shocks strengthen us, and its terrors enlighten us. . . . Demand reading. -- Toni Morrison

A major contribution to a literature that is devoid of research on or detailed accounts of the experiences of black women survivors of rape and sexual assault. -- Women's Review of Books

An excellent resource for [rape] survivors, their mates, family, friends, legal counsel, and health-care providers. -- Booklist, Lillian Lewis

An honest and moving portrait of a painful subject. -- Kirkus Reviews

Compelling and vital. -- Los Angeles Times, The Best Books of 1998

Pierce-Baker offers an intimate, often heart-rending, vision of sexual violence against women in the African-American community. This is an important book. -- Arnold Rampersad

Reading these women's stories, sorrow seems to sink into the marrow of my bones, but so, too, does Pierce-Baker's hard-won healing and wisdom. -- Lorene Cary, author of Black Ice