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

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“In 1997, this groundbreaking book made a powerful entrance into the national conversation on race. 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.

400 page