Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts

Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts

Killing the Black Body remains a rallying cry for education, awareness, and action on extending reproductive justice to all women. It is as crucial as ever, even two decades after its original publication.

A must-read for all those who claim to care about racial and gender justice in America. --Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow

In 1997, this groundbreaking book made a powerful entrance into the national conversation on race. In a media landscape dominated by racially biased images of welfare queens and crack babies, Killing the Black Body exposed America's systemic abuse of Black women's bodies. From slave masters' economic stake in bonded women's fertility to government programs that coerced thousands of poor Black women into being sterilized as late as the 1970s, these abuses pointed to the degradation of Black motherhood--and the exclusion of Black women's reproductive needs in mainstream feminist and civil rights agendas.

Compelling. . . . Deftly shows how distorted and racist constructions of black motherhood have affected politics, law, and policy in the United States. --Ms.

Dorothy Roberts is the George A. Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor and the fourteenth Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights and Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology She is the co-editor of six works on gender and constitutional law, including the award-winning Killing the Black Body and Broken Ties. She is the chair of the Black Women's Health Imperative's board of directors.

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ISBN 13	9780679758693
ISBN 10	0679758690
Title	Killing the Black Body
Author	Dorothy Roberts
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1998-12-29
Number of pages	400
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