Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty Free Audiobook Download by Dorothy Roberts

"Killing the Black Body" is a comprehensive and personal look at how America's reproductive policies have accelerated the loss of black life. It provides a history of racial coercion in America, from the slave trade to contemporary politics. It also exposes how government-sponsored population control programs, like welfare regulations that penalize poor mothers, have been central in shaping social inequality and the economic crisis facing many African Americans today.

This book is about how black women's bodies have been disproportionately denied liberty and subjected to reproductive state violence.

This is a book about the history of reproductive control that uncovers a 'web of reproductive restraint' spun by black women and reveals how policies governing reproduction are part of a long legacy of social control.

Dorothy Roberts argues that black women have been denied their full human rights, due to the intersection of race, gender, and reproduction-based discrimination.

Dorothy Roberts offers a powerful and provocative analysis of the intersections between reproduction, childbearing, and race in America. She takes us from the beginning of black America's "reproductive history" as a slave society to the new reproductive technologies that disrupt black lives today.