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A decade after the Human Genome Project proved that human beings
are not naturally divided by race, scientists are attempting to
resuscitate race as a biological category. In this provocative
analysis, leading legal scholar and social critic Dorothy Roberts
argues that America is once again at the brink of a virulent
outbreak of classifying population by race. By searching for
differences at the molecular level, a new race-based science is
obscuring racism in society and legitimising state brutality
against communities at a time when America claims to be
post-racial.
This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activist, and socially transformative civil rights agenda of recent years--using a black feminist lens and the issue of the impact of recent legislation, social policy, and welfare "reform" on black women's--especially poor black women's--control over their bodies' autonomy and their freedom to bear and raise children with respect and dignity in a society whose white mainstream is determined to demonize, even criminalize their lives. It gives its readers a cogent legal and historical argument for a radically new , and socially transformative, definition of "liberty" and "equality" for the American polity from a black feminist perspective.
The author is able to combine the most innovative and radical thinking on several fronts--racial theory, feminist, and legal--to produce a work that is at once history and political treatise. By using the history of how American law--beginning with slavery--has treated the issue of the state's right to interfere with the black woman's body, the author explosively and effectively makes the case for the legal redress to the racist implications of current policy with regards to 1) access to and coercive dispensing of birth control to poor black women 2) the criminalization of parenting by poor black women who have used drugs 3) the stigmatization and devaluation of poor black mothers under the new welfare provisions, and 4) the differential access to and disproportionate spending of social resources on the new reproductive technologies used by wealthy white couples to insure genetically related offspring.
The legal redress of the racism inherent in current American law and policy in these matters, the author argues in her last chapter, demands and should lead us to adopt a new standard and definition of the liberal theory of "liberty" and "equality" based on the need for, and the positive role of government in fostering, social as well as individual justice.
Long, long ago there were no beautifully colored birds like we see
today. Raven and his friend Jay are tired of the dull gray color of
their feathers. Raven has an idea to change this and leads Jay on
an adventure, but his plan turns out to be full of surprises--even
for him. Author Dotty Cline based this delightful tale on an
Athabascan myth. She cut the brightly colored illustrations from
finger paintings created by her grandchildren.
In the Flight of Stars, Dorothy Roberts's seventh book of poetry
and her first in more than a decade, is -- in her own words -- " a
collection of latter-life poems," the mature work of a firm
intelligence. No sentimentalist, Roberts unflinchingly confronts
the polarities of birth and death, decay and renewal, the gradual
passage of light, the forces of dissolution, the patterns and
requirements of nature. Growing old, she observes the pleasures of
age and the interwoven pattern of loss. Like the best of her
earlier work, In the Flight of Stars demonstrates Roberts's ease
with language, her preference for meter and movement, her interest
in subtle variations of sound and her ability to combine idea and
metaphor. The result is a signifcant collection of verse which is
formal without being austere; muscular yet singularly delicate and
sensuous.
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