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Killing the black body : race, reproduction, and the meaning of liberty / Dorothy Roberts.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Vintage Books, 1999.Edition: Second Vintage Books edition; Twentieth anniversary editionDescription: x, 373 p. ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9780679758693
  • 0679758690
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 304.6660973
LOC classification:
  • HQ766.5.U5 R58 2017
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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, awareness, and action on extending reproductive justice to all women" -- Page [4] of cover.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status
Non-fiction Main Non Fiction FIC EGD Rob (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available

Originally published in the United States in slightly different form in hardcover by Pantheon Books, 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

"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, awareness, and action on extending reproductive justice to all women" -- Page [4] of cover.