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Killing the Black Body
Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
Author: Dorothy Roberts
Narrator: Shayna Small
Unabridged: 14 hr 38 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 10/13/2020
Synopsis
This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activist, and socially transformative civil rights agenda of recent years--using a black feminist lens and the issue of the impact of recent legislation, social policy, and welfare "reform" on black women's--especially poor black women's--control over their bodies' autonomy and their freedom to bear and raise children with respect and dignity in a society whose white mainstream is determined to demonize, even criminalize their lives. It gives its readers a cogent legal and historical argument for a radically new , and socially transformative, definition of "liberty" and "equality" for the American polity from a black feminist perspective.