Killing the black body Race, reproduction, and the meaning of liberty

Dorothy E. Roberts, 1956-

Book - 2017

"In 1997, this groundbreaking book made a powerful entrance into the national conversation on race. 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. 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 devaluation of Black motherhood--and the neglect of Black women's reproductive needs in mainstream feminist and civil rights agendas. Now, some two decades later, Killing the Black body remains as crucial as ever--a rallying cry for education, a...wareness, and action on extending reproductive justice to all women"--Page 4 of cover.

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Published
New York : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2017.
Language
English
Main Author
Dorothy E. Roberts, 1956- (author)
Edition
Second Vintage books edition. Twentieth anniversary edition
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Item Description
"With a new preface by the author."
"Originally published in a slightly different form in hardcover in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 1997"--Title page verso.
Physical Description
xxi, 375 pages ; 21 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-359) and index.
ISBN
9780679758693
  • Reproduction in bondage
  • The dark side of birth control
  • From Norplant to the contraceptive vaccine : the new frontier of population control
  • Making reproduction a crime
  • The welfare debate : who pays for procreation?
  • Race and the new reproduction
  • The meaning of liberty.