Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Roberts, Dorothy
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Roberts, Dorothy

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

Killing the Black Body remains a rallying cry for education, awareness, and action on extending reproductive justice...
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Author: Dorothy Roberts
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Language: English
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Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Roberts, Dorothy

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

$56.99 $30.00
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Roberts, Dorothy

Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

$56.99 $30.00
Author: Dorothy Roberts
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
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.

Author: Dorothy Roberts
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 12/29/1998
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780679758693

About the Author
Dorothy Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professorof Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of three books of nonfiction, Killing the Black Body, Shattered Bonds, and Fatal Invention, and has coedited six works on constitutional law and gender. She lives in Philadelphia.
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