4. Racism and Domestic Violence

Abstract

The purpose of the study is to investigate domestic violence within the framework of ‘race’. Specifically, its purpose is to raise awareness of the negative impact of racism in relation to violence. It will illustrate that the relationship between ‘race’ and violence is a spurious one – differences in rates of domestic violence are not due to the biological factor of ‘race’ but rather due to various social factors which impact particular racialized groups at different rates. The poster will show that racial stereotypes and other forms of racism hinder solving the problem of domestic violence by blaming racial factors instead of social structural ones.