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Praise for Dorothy Roberts’s books:Killing the Black Body:
[M]onumental . . . an important contribution to the literature of civil rights, reproductive issues, racism and feminism.
—San Francisco Chronicle
Brilliant, controversial, and profoundly valuable.
—Kirkus Reviews
Shattered Bonds:
Passionate, meticulously researched.
—Ms. Roberts revels in raising the hackles of what she regards as a comfortably numb society that has for centuries treated people of color with a not-so thinly-veiled contempt.
—The Christian Science Monitor
[M]onumental . . . an important contribution to the literature of civil rights, reproductive issues, racism and feminism.
—San Francisco Chronicle
Brilliant, controversial, and profoundly valuable.
—Kirkus Reviews
Shattered Bonds:
Passionate, meticulously researched.
—Ms. Roberts revels in raising the hackles of what she regards as a comfortably numb society that has for centuries treated people of color with a not-so thinly-veiled contempt.
—The Christian Science Monitor
Fatal Invention
How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century
Dorothy Robertshardcover
$29.95A powerful new argument from a leading intellectual that explores how today’s cutting-edge genetic science helps perpetuate inequality in a “post-racial” America
While embracing a racial ideology rooted in genetics, Americans are accepting a genetic ideology rooted in race that makes everyone responsible for managing their own lives at the genetic level instead of eliminating the social inequalities that damage our entire society.
—From Fatal Invention
—From Fatal Invention
A decade after the Human Genome Project proved that human beings are not naturally divided by race, the emerging fields of personalized medicine, reproductive technologies, genetic genealogy, and DNA databanks are attempting to resuscitate race as a biological category written in our genes.In this provocative analysis, leading legal scholar and social critic Dorothy Roberts argues that America is once again at the brink of a virulent outbreak of classifying population by race. By searching for differences at the molecular level, a new race-based science is obscuring racism in our society and legitimizing state brutality against communities of color at a time when America claims to be post-racial. Moving from an account of the evolution of race—proving that it has always been a mutable and socially defined political division supported by mainstream science—Roberts delves deep into the current debates, interrogating the newest science and biotechnology, interviewing its researchers, and exposing the political consequences obscured by the focus on genetic difference. Fatal Invention is a provocative call for us to affirm our common humanity.
Dorothy Roberts is the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Northwestern University School of Law and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research. She is the author of Killing the Black Body and Shattered Bonds. She lives in Evanston, Illinois.
Dorothy Roberts is the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Northwestern University School of Law and a faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research. She is the author of Killing the Black Body and Shattered Bonds. She lives in Evanston, Illinois.
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Dorothy E. Roberts
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Dorothy Roberts joined Northwestern’s faculty in fall 1998 with a joint appointment as a faculty fellow at the Institute for Policy Research. She is a frequent speaker and prolific scholar on issues related to race, gender, and the law and has published more than 75 articles and essays in books and scholarly journals, including Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, and Stanford Law Review, authored 2 award-winning books, and co-edited 5 casebooks and anthologies. Her latest book, Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century, was published in July 2011. Roberts received fellowships and grants from the National Science Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Searle Fund, Hastings Center, Fulbright Scholars Program, Harvard University Program in Ethics and the Professions, and Stanford Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and as a visiting professor was the recipient of the Outstanding First-Year Course Professor Award for 1997-98. She serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Black Women’s Health Imperative and is currently conducting research on the effects of child welfare agency involvement in African-American neighborhoods and on race-based biotechnologies.
Areas of Expertise
- Women and the Law
- Family Law
- Criminal Law
- Civil Rights
- Juvenile Law
Courses
Selected Publications
- Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century (The New Press, 2011).
- Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and The Meaning of Liberty (Pantheon, 1997).
- Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Basic Books, 2002).
- Spiritual and Menial Housework in 9 yale journal of law & feminism 51 (1997).
- The Genetic Tie in 62 university of chicago law review 209 (1995).
- The Social and Moral Cost of Mass Incarceration in African American Communities in 56 stanford law review 1271-1305 (2004).
Joint Appointments
Education
- BA magna cum laude, Yale University
- JD, Harvard University
Prior Appointments
- Visiting Professor, spring 1998, Stanford Law School
- Visiting Associate Professor, spring 1994, University of Pennsylvania Law School
- Professor of Law, Associate Professor of Law, 1988-1998, Rutgers University School of Law-Rutgers
- Fellow, 1994-1995, Harvard University Program in Ethics and the Professions
- Associate, 1981-1988, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
- Law Clerk, 1980-1981, Hon. Constance Baker Motley, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
Recent Consulting Activities
- Member, Braam Panel, monitoring foster care reform in Washington State
- Member, Lexis/Nexis Advisory Board
- Member, Advisory Board, Program on Reproductive Health and Rights, Open So
- Member, Board of Directors, National Black Women’s Health Imperative
- Member, Board of Directors, National Coalition for Child Protection Reform
Dorothy Roberts
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dorothy E. Roberts (born 1956) is the Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, Illinois.[1]
Roberts received her Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and her Doctor of Jurisprudence from Harvard Law School. She is an author, lecturer, and lawyer. She has written extensively and lectured on the interplay of gender, race, and class in legal issues concerning reproduction, motherhood, bioethics, and child welfare.
She was also a blogger at blackprof.com.
Roberts has been a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University.
In 2002-03, she was a Fulbright Scholar at the Centre for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago, where she conducted research on family planning policy and on gender, sexuality, and HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean. She is currently conducting research on the significance of the spatial concentration of state supervision of children in African American communities and on the use of race in biomedical research and biotechnology.
Roberts is featured in the documentary film, Silent Choices, about abortion and reproductive rights from the perspective of African Americans. Roberts also served as an advisor to the film.
Roberts received her Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and her Doctor of Jurisprudence from Harvard Law School. She is an author, lecturer, and lawyer. She has written extensively and lectured on the interplay of gender, race, and class in legal issues concerning reproduction, motherhood, bioethics, and child welfare.
[edit] Author/Lawyer
Roberts has published more than fifty articles and essays in books, scholarly journals, newspapers, and magazines, including Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, University of Chicago Law Review, Social Text, and The New York Times. She has written Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Basic Civitas Books, 2002) and Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Pantheon, 1997), in which she purports to give “a powerful and authoritative account of the on-going assault – both figurative and literal – waged by the American government and our society on the reproductive rights of Black women.”[2] and was the co-author of casebooks on constitutional law and women and the law. Killing the Black Body received a 1998 Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America. Her influential article, “Punishing Drug Addicts Who Have Babies: Women of Color, Equality, and the Right of Privacy” (Harvard Law Review, 1991), has been widely cited and is included in a number of anthologies. Her most recent book is Fatal Invention (The New Press, 2011), which argues that America is once again at the brink of a virulent outbreak of classifying population by race, proving that race has always been a mutable and socially defined political division supported by mainstream science.She was also a blogger at blackprof.com.
[edit] Lecturer/Professor
Roberts has delivered several endowed lectures, including the James Thomas Lecture at Yale Law School. She was elected twice by the Rutgers University School of Law graduating class to be faculty graduation speaker, and was voted outstanding first-year course professor by the Northwestern University School of Law class of 2000. She received the Radcliffe University Graduate Society Medal in June, 1998. Her current projects concern race and child welfare policy.Roberts has been a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University.
In 2002-03, she was a Fulbright Scholar at the Centre for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago, where she conducted research on family planning policy and on gender, sexuality, and HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean. She is currently conducting research on the significance of the spatial concentration of state supervision of children in African American communities and on the use of race in biomedical research and biotechnology.
Roberts is featured in the documentary film, Silent Choices, about abortion and reproductive rights from the perspective of African Americans. Roberts also served as an advisor to the film.
[edit] Political views
Professor Roberts has drawn parallels between what she sees as current U.S. “imperialism” and white supremacy, asserting U.S. torture of terrorist suspects is a tool to maintain supremacy just as violence has been used to maintain white supremacy, and comparing the treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison to racist lynchings of blacks.[3][edit] Resources
- Dorothy Roberts
- Dorothy Roberts: profile
- IPR People: Dorothy Roberts
- Dorothy Roberts: Race, Class, and Care
- Northwestern News: Child Welfare Discourse Fails to Factor in Racial Bias
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