Killing the Black Body
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Killing the Black Body

by Dorothy Roberts

Reproductive control as racial weapon

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you know healthcare is political but haven't seen how deep it goes

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Before the culture wars, before Roe, there was a much older war — on Black women's bodies. Dorothy Roberts lays bare how U.S. policy has treated Black reproduction as a problem to be managed, from forced sterilizations to welfare rules to the war on drugs. A book that reframes the entire reproductive rights debate around whose rights actually get protected.

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Themes
American MythmakingFounding Lies