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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.
"Monumental. . . . An important contribution to the literature of civil rights, reproductive issues, racism and feminism." —San Francisco Chronicle
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.
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.
"Monumental. . . . An important contribution to the literature of civil rights, reproductive issues, racism and feminism." —San Francisco Chronicle
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.
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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.
Reviews-
San Francisco Chronicle
"Monumental. . . . An important contribution to the literature of civil rights, reproductive issues, racism and feminism."
Patricia Hill Collins, author of Black Feminist Thought
"An important and riveting book that skillfully and compellingly explains contemporary challenges to reproductive freedom."
Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow
"A must-read for all those who claim to care about racial and gender justice in America."
Angela Davis
"A leading-edge critique of reproductive racism . . . In this current era, we discover the foresight and absolute necessity of Roberts's approach."
Bryan Stevenson, author of Just Mercy
"Race in America cannot be fully understood without reading this compelling investigation. . . . Timely, insightful and unforgettable."
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