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. 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 degradation of Black motherhood—and the exclusion of Black women’s reproductive needs in mainstream feminist and civil rights agendas.
Now, some two decades later, Killing the Black Body has not only exerted profound influence, but also remains as crucial as ever—a rallying cry for education, awareness, and action on extending reproductive justice to all women.
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"Killing the Black Body" expresses a perspective utterly alien to my prior knowledge. Perhaps the book has had some influence and, most likely, situations have changed since the book was written. Books like this one that deal with race will eventually be perceived as old school, once the whole concept of race becomes seen as muddled and superseded.
this book is a wonderful read!!! This book addresses so many of the serious injustices woman suffer, mainly women of color yet, never get told. The stories and cases shown are triggers for us all and should be talk about, this book gives the platform necessary for fruitful conversations needed to bring about changes.
This book serves the reader with terms that are and easy to follow and understand.
there was nothing about this book that I did not enjoy!
