Killing the Black Body, Dorothy Roberts
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Killing the Black Body
Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

Narrator: Shayna Small

Unabridged: 14 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

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.

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