Name: Killing the Black Body
ISBN: 9780679758693

Dorothy E. Roberts

A powerful, thought-provoking indictment of America's continuing assault on the reproductive rights of black women ranges from the era of slavery to the welfare reform acts of the 1990s that penalize women on welfare for having babies. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

Killing the Black Body

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Yet a resilient pernicious strain of thinking within liberal politics continues to view birth control as a primary means of addressing problems like poverty, overpopulation, and environmental protection. On one hand, the right has recently exploited the history of eugenics to falsely portray abortion as a form of Black genocide. On the other hand, however, the left has yet to purge its advocacy of family planning of some of its racist and eugenicist roots, still promoting birth control as a way to save taxpayer money spent on unintended welfare-dependent children, rather than a way for women to have greater control over their lives. 

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

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