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Reproductive Injustice

A troubling study of the role that medical racism plays in the lives of black women who have given birth to premature and low birth weight infantsBlack women have higher rates of premature birth than…

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A troubling study of the role that medical racism plays in the lives of black women who have given birth to premature and low birth weight infantsBlack women have higher rates of premature birth than other women in America. This cannot be simply explained by economic factors, with poorer women lacking resources or access to care. Even professional, middle-class black women are at a much higher risk of premature birth than low-income white women in the United States. D na-Ain Davis looks into this phenomenon, placing racial differences in birth outcomes into a historical context, revealing that ideas about reproduction and race today have been influenced by the legacy of ideas which developed during the era of slavery.While poor and low-income black women are often the "mascots" of premature birth outcomes, this book focuses on professional black women, who are

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