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African-American women experience intimate partner violence at rates 35% higher than their White counterparts and 2.5 times the rate of men and other races
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African Americans account for a disproportionate number of intimate partner homicides. In 2005, African American accounted for almost 1/3 of the intimate partner homicides in this country
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Domestic violence affects all Americans, regardless of race, gender, or socioeconomic status. However, this threat has disproportionately dire consequences for African-American women.

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University-Community Partnerships for Diversity and Social Justice
January 22, 2010 1:00�4:00 PM
St. Paul Student Center Theatre
University of Minnesota, Saint Paul Campus
2017 Buford Ave, St. Paul, MN 55108
Etiony Aldarondo, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Counseling
& Educational Psychology, University of Miami
Julia L. Perilla, Ph.D., Clinical Community Psychologist & Associate Research Professor, Department of Psychology, Georgia State University

This forum, led by two accomplished Latino scholars working at the University of Miami and Georgia State University, will focus on their efforts to use the talents and resources of their institutions to promote the human rights and well being of underserved ethnic minorities in their communities. They will discuss the social justice foundations of their work and present examples of partnerships with immigrant Latino communities affected by issues of domestic violence, structural poverty, and immigration.