Killing the black body : race, reproduction, and the meaning of liberty
(Book)

"With a new preface by the author."-- Page 1 cover.

"Originally published in a slightly different form in hardcover in the United States by Pantheon Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 1997"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-359) and index.

"In 1997, this groundbreaking book made a powerful entrance into the national conversation on race. In a media landscape dominated by racially biased images of welfare queens and crack babies, Killing the black body exposed America's systemic abuse of Black women's bodies. From slave masters' economic stake in bonded women's fertility to government programs that coerced thousands of poor Black women into being sterilized as late as the 1970s, these abuses pointed to the devaluation of Black motherhood--and the neglect of Black women's reproductive needs in mainstream feminist and civil rights agendas. Now, some two decades later, Killing the Black body remains as crucial as ever--a rallying cry for education, awareness, and action on extending reproductive justice to all women"--Page 4 of cover.