Khiara M. Bridges is the Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at UC Berkeley School of Law.
Legal scholar, anthropologist, public speaker, and leading expert on the intersection of race, class, and reproductive rights Learn more ->Image Credit: Drew Altizer
Image Credit: Drew Altizer
NEW BOOK
Expecting Inequity
How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans
An unsettling exploration of the persistence of racism in reproductive healthcare in the US—and why even affluent Black women are imperiled by substandard care.
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Stunning, enraging, and extremely necessary, Expecting Inequity is a love letter to black women and an urgent call to action for everybody.
Paul Butler, MSNBC legal analyst; author of Chokehold: Policing Black Men
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Paul Butler, MSNBC legal analyst; author of Chokehold: Policing Black Men
With empathy, rigor, and keen legal insight, Bridges illuminates both the systemic forces behind the inequality in maternal health and the strategies black women create to protect themselves. Essential.
Dorothy Roberts, author of Torn Apart and Killing the Black Body
