 Kimberlé Crenshaw (1991) draws the consequences of this false generalization for combatting violence against African American women. Civil rights groups often downplay statistics about domestic violence in African American neighborhoods because they do not want to feed stereotypes about the violence of African American men. Likewise, feminists often downplay the statistics because they do not want domestic violence to appear to be simply a crime against women of color. To this extent, African American men are the norm for civil rights advocates and white women are the norm for women’s rights advocates. Women of color simply disappear from view.