Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of LibertyThis 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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Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty Dorothy Roberts Limited preview - 1998 |
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty Dorothy Roberts Limited preview - 2014 |
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty Dorothy Roberts No preview available - 1998 |
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