The Secrets of Silence

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 re