{"product_id":"killing-the-black-body-race-reproduction-and-the-meaning-of-liberty-9780679758693","title":"Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKilling the Black Body\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A must-read for all those who claim to care about racial and gender justice in America.\" \u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003eMichelle Alexander, author of \u003ci\u003eThe New Jim Crow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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, \u003ci\u003eKilling the Black Body\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Compelling. . . . Deftly shows how distorted and racist constructions of black motherhood have affected politics, law, and policy in the United States.\" \u003ci\u003e--Ms.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dorothy Roberts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/29\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679758693\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDorothy 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, \u003ci\u003eKilling the Black Body\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Shattered Bonds\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFatal Invention\u003c\/i\u003e, and has coedited six works on constitutional law and gender. She lives in Philadelphia.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Dorothy Roberts \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47281920409757,"sku":"9780679758693","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_1d3022ba-96c2-4e9a-9f7d-d3ff2d52f7ad.jpg?v=1759939964","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/killing-the-black-body-race-reproduction-and-the-meaning-of-liberty-9780679758693","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}