Stand Your Ground (SYG) laws are color-blind and gender neutral in language, providing all citizens the right to use deadly force with no obligation to retreat when they experience a “reasonable” threat. However, SYG protections depend on implicit racial and gender biases. Using the case of Siwatu-Salama Ra, the elusive nature of SYG protections is explored as it relates to dominant stereotypes regarding Black femininity. The argument is made that this othering of Black women as aggressive, fearless, and in need of discipline is a miscarriage of justice and provides the ideological groundwork for the exclusion of Black women from self-defense protections.

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黑人女性气质和坚守阵地：控制图像和难以捉摸的自卫防御

坚守阵地 (SYG) 法律在语言上是色盲和性别中立的，赋予所有公民使用致命武力的权利，在遇到“合理”威胁时没有义务撤退。但是，SYG 保护取决于隐含的种族和性别偏见。使用 Siwatu-Salama Ra 的案例，探索了 SYG 保护的难以捉摸的性质，因为它与关于黑人女性气质的主要刻板印象有关。有观点认为，将黑人女性视为好斗、无畏和需要纪律是一种误判，并为将黑人女性排除在自卫保护之外提供了意识形态基础。