ABSTRACT
The effects of state funding and oversight of rape crisis services were contradictory. The role of the state in expanding ethnic and racial diversity in the anti-rape movement further illustrates how such contradictions emerged, and exemplifies the historical contingency of state-movement relations. In the previous chapter I explored how state funding promoted a more conservative form of rape crisis service through political and bureaucratic means. During these years, state money also furthered one of the more progressive goals of the movement, to become multiracial and multicultural, and to expand services to all women, but the kinds of organizations it created were much more bureaucratic than earlier grassroots groups. This chapter examines the problem of racial and ethnic diversity in the anti-rape movement and shows how racial diversity in the local movement was facilitated by the state’s involvement in establishing two new Black rape crisis centers in the mid 1980s.
