BEST of 2022: Family Policing Protects White Supremacy / Dorothy Roberts

27/12/2022 1h 25min
BEST of 2022: Family Policing Protects White Supremacy / Dorothy Roberts

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We replay a listener chosen favorite interview from 2022 with Dorothy Roberts, an award-winning author and expert on the interplay of gender, race, and class in legal issues concerning reproduction, bioethics, and child welfare. She is a professor of law and sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Chuck Mertz interviews Roberts about her latest book, TORN APART: How the child welfare system destroys black families—and how abolition can build a safer world.