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

Call & Post | July 23, 1998 | Copyright

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

"The sight of a pregnant Black woman bound in shackles is a modern-day reincarnation of the horrors of slave masters' control of slave women's wombs", suggests Rutgers law professor Dorothy Roberts in her just released book, Killing The Black Body (Pantheon Books; October 1997; &26.00), a stinging account of America's deeply rooted and ongoing assault on the reproductive autonomy of black women.

For too long, Roberts points out, historians have ignored the influence of race, painting a picture of American women's ...

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