What happens to survivors of violence — often perpetrated by intimates — who defend themselves against their attackers? According to legal scholar Leigh Goodmark, it often depends on whether those survivors look suitably victim-like. She discusses the circumstances that frequently lead to the criminalization of survivors of violence –- and makes the case for the … Continued


Guest: Chad L. Williams is the Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African and African American Studies at Brandeis University.  He is the author of the award-winning book Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era and his latest, The Wounded World: W. E. B. Du Bois and the First World War.