Papers by Dorothy Roberts
Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, 2013
Intersectional analysis need not focus solely on differences within or between identity-based gro... more Intersectional analysis need not focus solely on differences within or between identity-based groups. Using intersectionality for cross movement mobilization reveals that, contrary to criticism for being divisive, attention to intersecting identities has the potential to create solidarity and cohesion. In this article, we elaborate this argument with a case study of the intersection of race, gender, and disability in genetic technologies as well as in organizing to promote a social justice approach to the use of these technologies. We show how organizing based on an intersectional analysis can help forge alliances between reproductive justice, racial justice, women's rights, and disability rights activists to develop strategies to address reproductive genetic technologies. We use the work of Generations Ahead to illuminate how intersectionality applied at the movement-building level can identify genuine common ground, create authentic alliances, and more effectively advocate for...
The Most Shocking and Inhumane Inequality: Thinking Structurally About Persistent Poverty and Racial Health Inequities
Adoption Myths and Racial Realities in the United States
Outsiders Within, 2021
Abolish race correction
The Lancet, 2021
Kentucky law journal (Lexington, Ky.), 1996
Part of the Law and Gender Commons Right click to open a feedback form in a new tab to let us kno... more Part of the Law and Gender Commons Right click to open a feedback form in a new tab to let us know how this document benefits you. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Law Journals at UKnowledge.
Only Good Poor Woman: Unconstitutional Conditions and Welfare, The
Denv. UL Rev., 1994
... 15, 1993, at 36; see generally Madeline Henley, Comment, The Creation and Perpetuation of the... more ... 15, 1993, at 36; see generally Madeline Henley, Comment, The Creation and Perpetuation of the Mother/Body Myth: Judicial and Legis-lative Enlistment of ... 40. See Martha A. Fineman, The Neutered Mother, The Sexual Family and Other Twentieth Century Tragedies 185 (1995 ...
J. Health Care L. & Pol'y, 1999
Cancer treatment and research, 2010
This Article is brought to you for free and open access by UCI Law Scholarly Commons. It has been... more This Article is brought to you for free and open access by UCI Law Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in UC Irvine Law Review by an authorized editor of UCI Law Scholarly Commons.
Centering the relationship between structural racism and individual bias
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Cesario misrepresents or ignores data on real-world racist and sexist patterns and processes in a... more Cesario misrepresents or ignores data on real-world racist and sexist patterns and processes in an attempt to discredit the assumptions of implicit bias experimentation. His position stands in stark contradiction to substantive research across the social sciences recognizing the widespread, systematic, and structuring processes of racism and sexism. We argue for centering the relationship between structural racism and individual bias.
Slavery has been fruitful in giving itself names. .. and you and I and all of us had better wait ... more Slavery has been fruitful in giving itself names. .. and you and I and all of us had better wait and see what new form this old monster will assume, in what new skin this old snake will come forth next.
The Community Impact of Racial Disproportionality: The Racial Geography of Child Welfare
Child Maltreatment, 2020
An understudied aspect of racial disproportionality is its community impact. Although alarming, n... more An understudied aspect of racial disproportionality is its community impact. Although alarming, national and state statistics do not reveal the spatial dynamics of the child welfare system’s racial disparities. In the nation’s cities, child protection cases tend to be concentrated in communities of color. Many poor black neighborhoods, in particular, have extremely high rates of involvement by public child welfare agencies, especially placement in foster care. Thus, state custody of children has a racial geography. The overrepresentation of black children in the foster care population represents massive state supervision and dissolution of families concentrated in their neighborhoods. This chapter addresses the social impact of this concentration of child welfare agency involvement on the residents who live in these neighborhoods.
Critical race feminism
Research Handbook on Feminist Jurisprudence, 2019
First amendment anthology
Racial Surveillance Has a Long History
The Biology of Racism
American Anthropologist, 2021
Why Reproductive Justice Matters to Reproductive Ethics
Reproductive Ethics in Clinical Practice, 2021
This chapter addresses the historical and current attempts by physicians and legislators to regul... more This chapter addresses the historical and current attempts by physicians and legislators to regulate the reproduction of Black, Latina, and Indigenous women, with a particular focus on Black women. It connects the contemporary language promoting long-acting reversible contraception for “risky” populations to past policies coercing Black, Latina, and Indigenous women to use contraception and undergo sterilization. At the same time, these efforts to regulate the reproduction of women of color coincide with a rising number of abortion restrictions and lack of access to abortion and safe motherhood, which affect women of color disproportionately. Black women bear a disproportionate burden of the staggering and rising maternal mortality rate in the United States. These topics are often omitted from discussions about reproductive ethics, and social justice is often neglected as a major ethical principle. Approaching the reproductive freedom of women of color from a reproductive justice pe...
The US welfare state’s punishment of black women’s childbearing and care giving
Race, Ethnicity and Welfare States
Race has always governed the meaning of welfare in the United States. White Americans’ fears that... more Race has always governed the meaning of welfare in the United States. White Americans’ fears that blacks will benefit from public assistance have worked to make welfare in the United State both puny and punitive. Two chief systems within the US welfare state – public aid and child protection services – penalize black women for their role as mothers. This chapter examines public policies toward black women’s childbearing and care giving by the US welfare state in order to elucidate how race helps to maintain welfare’s punitive features in the United States.
Race, Gender, and Genetic Technologies
Feminist Surveillance Studies
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