Dorothy Roberts (Livres)

Dorothy Roberts Livres

Dorothy Roberts est une universitaire et une défenseure de la justice sociale de premier plan dont le travail analyse les intersections du droit, de la race, du genre et de l'inégalité. Avec un accent inébranlable sur la justice sociale, elle examine comment les institutions et les structures sociétales ont un impact sur les communautés marginalisées. Ses écrits influents exposent des biais profondément enracinés dans des domaines critiques, des droits reproductifs au bien-être de l'enfance en passant par l'innovation scientifique. Roberts exhorte les lecteurs à évaluer de manière critique la science et la politique modernes qui façonnent notre compréhension de la race et de la reproduction.

Torn Apart

272pages
10 heures de lecture

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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

Killing The Black Body