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 ->

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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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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

The Poverty of Privacy Rights

Critical Race Theory

Reproducing Race: An Ethonography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization

Race in the Machine: Racial Disparities in Health and Medical AI

110 Virginia Law Review - 2024

The Supreme Court 2021 Term – Foreword: Race in the Roberts Court

136 Harvard Law Review - 2022

The Dysgenic State: Environmental Injustice and Disability-Selective Abortion Bans

110 California Law Review - 2022

Deploying Death

68 UCLA Law Review - 2022

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