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Dorothy Roberts

    Dorothy Roberts è una studiosa e sostenitrice della giustizia sociale all'avanguardia il cui lavoro analizza le intersezioni tra legge, razza, genere e disuguaglianza. Con un focus incrollabile sulla giustizia sociale, esamina come le istituzioni e le strutture sociali influenzino le comunità emarginate. I suoi scritti influenti espongono pregiudizi profondamente radicati in aree critiche, dai diritti riproduttivi e il benessere dei minori all'innovazione scientifica. Roberts esorta i lettori a valutare criticamente la scienza e la politica moderne che plasmano la nostra comprensione della razza e della riproduzione.

    Killing The Black Body
    Torn Apart
    • Torn Apart

      • 272pagine
      • 10 ore di lettura

      An award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and offers a "a brilliant and impassioned call for abolition" (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow) Many believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as Torn Apart uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. Drawing on decades of research, legal scholar and sociologist Dorothy Roberts reveals that the child welfare system is better understood as a "family policing system" that collaborates with law enforcement and prisons to oppress Black communities. Child protection investigations ensnare a majority of Black children, putting their families under intense state surveillance and regulation. Black children are disproportionately likely to be torn from their families and placed in foster care, driving many to juvenile detention and imprisonment. The only way to stop the destruction caused by family policing, Torn Apart argues, is to abolish the child welfare system and liberate Black communities.

      Torn Apart