Policing Black Reproduction
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Max is joined by Dorothy Roberts, JD, professor of Law, Sociology and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, to discuss her work of 30+ years analyzing the role of government in policing, and criminalizing Black women's behaviors during pregnancy, race-science, how these policies and theories propagate and have a larger impact of both maternal health and U.S. society at large.
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