The Black Studies Colloquium (BSC) and the Black and Latino Studies (BLS) Department at Baruch College will host a talk entitled “Abolition and the Policing of Black Mothers” by acclaimed scholar of law, race, and gender, Dorothy E. Roberts.  Professor Roberts’s path-breaking work in law and public policy focuses on urgent contemporary issues in health, social justice, and bioethics, especially as they impact the lives of women, children, and African Americans.  Her major books include Fatal Invention:  How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century (New Press 2011); Shattered Bonds:  The Color of Child Welfare (Basic Books, 2002), and Killing the Black Body:  Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Pantheon, 1997).

Moderated by Professor Erica Richardson

October 22, 2020

1:00PM