Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty Roberts DorothyPaperback
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty Roberts DorothyPaperback Killing the Black Body remains a rallying cry for education, awareness, and action on extending…
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Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty Roberts DorothyPaperback
Killing the Black Body remains a rallying cry for education, awareness, and action on extending reproductive justice to all women. "A must-read for all those who claim to care about racial and gender justice in America." --Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim CrowIn 1997, this groundbreaking book made a powerful entrance into the national conversation on race. It is as crucial as ever, even two decades after its original publication.
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 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.