Dorothy Roberts
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Dorothy Roberts's Degrees
- Doctorate Law Harvard University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Dorothy E. Roberts is an American sociologist, law professor, and social justice advocate. She is the Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, George A. Weiss University Professor, and inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at the University of Pennsylvania. She writes and lectures on gender, race, and class in legal issues. Her focuses include reproductive health, child welfare, and bioethics. In 2023, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society. She has published over 80 articles and essays in books and scholarly journals, including Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, and Stanford Law Review.
Dorothy Roberts's Published Works
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Published Works
- Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (2001) (541)
- Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (1997) (497)
- Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century (2011) (476)
- Taking race out of human genetics (2016) (414)
- Pitied but not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of Welfare@@@The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty (1995) (308)
- THE SOCIAL AND MORAL COST OF MASS INCARCERATION IN AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES (2004) (300)
- Punishing drug addicts who have babies: women of color, equality, and the right of privacy. (1991) (263)
- Sleep disparity, race/ethnicity, and socioeconomic position. (2016) (223)
- Prison, Foster Care, and the Systemic Punishment of Black Mothers (2012) (165)
- Structural competency meets structural racism: race, politics, and the structure of medical knowledge. (2014) (134)
- Race, Gender, and Genetic Technologies: A New Reproductive Dystopia? (2009) (121)
- Racism and Patriarchy in the Meaning of Motherhood (1992) (116)
- Foreword: Race, Vagueness, and the Social Meaning of Order-Maintenance Policing (1999) (103)
- Misrepresenting Race - The Role of Medical Schools in Propagating Physician Bias. (2021) (101)
- The genetic tie. (1995) (72)
- SPIRITUAL AND MENIAL HOUSEWORK (1997) (71)
- The racial geography of child welfare: toward a new research paradigm. (2008) (68)
- Child protection as surveillance of African American families (2014) (65)
- Motherhood and Crime (1995) (52)
- MOVEMENT INTERSECTIONALITY (2013) (51)
- Complicating the triangle of race, class and state: the insights of black feminists (2014) (47)
- Is Race-Based Medicine Good for Us?: African American Approaches to Race, Biomedicine, and Equality (2008) (46)
- NIH must confront the use of race in science (2020) (43)
- Who May Give Birth to Citizens? Reproduction, Eugenics, and Immigration (1998) (40)
- Legal Constraints on the Use of Race in Biomedical Research: Toward a Social Justice Framework (2006) (35)
- Crime, race, and reproduction. (1993) (35)
- Debating the Cause of Health Disparities (2012) (34)
- Reproductive Justice, Not Just Rights (2015) (34)
- Constructing a Criminal Justice System Free of Racial Bias: An Abolitionist Framework (2008) (33)
- Welfare and the Problem of Black Citizenship (1996) (32)
- Unshackling Black Motherhood (1997) (32)
- Child Welfare and Civil Rights (2003) (30)
- Rationing, racism and justice: advancing the debate around ‘colourblind’ COVID-19 ventilator allocation (2021) (29)
- Medical hope, legal pitfalls: potential legal issues in the emerging field of oncofertility. (2010) (26)
- What’s Wrong with Race-Based Medicine?: Genes, Drugs, and Health Disparities (2011) (26)
- Race, Gender, and the Value of Mothers' Work (1995) (24)
- Why Sociology Matters to Race and Biosocial Science (2020) (24)
- Race and the new reproduction. (2001) (24)
- Abolish race correction (2021) (23)
- The Value of Black Mothers' Work (1994) (23)
- Torture and the Biopolitics of Race (2008) (20)
- Is There Justice in Children's Rights?: The Critique of Federal Family Preservation Policy (1999) (20)
- The future of reproductive choice for poor women and women of color. (1990) (20)
- Poverty, Race, and New Directions in Child Welfare Policy (1999) (19)
- The Paradox of Silence: Some Questions About Silence as Resistance (2000) (19)
- The Case of Race, Gender, Disability, and Genetic Technologies (2013) (18)
- Criminal Justice and Black Families: The Collateral Damage of Over-Enforcement (2001) (18)
- A feminist social justice approach to reproduction-assisting technologies: a case study on the limits of liberal theory. (1996) (17)
- Can Research on the Genetics of Intelligence Be "Socially Neutral"? (2015) (17)
- Kinship Care and the Price of State Support for Children (2001) (16)
- Collateral Consequences, Genetic Surveillance, and the New Biopolitics of Race (2011) (15)
- Poverty, Welfare Reform, and the Meaning of Disability (2001) (15)
- Feminism, Race, and Adoption Policy (2016) (14)
- Rape, Violence, and Women's Autonomy (1993) (14)
- Privatization and Punishment in the New Era of Reprogenetics (2005) (14)
- The Paradox of Silence and Display: Sexual Violation of Enslaved Women and Contemporary Contradictions in Black Female Sexuality (2010) (14)
- Child Welfare's Paradox (2007) (13)
- Critical race feminism (2019) (13)
- Race, Poverty, History, Adoption, and Child Abuse: Connections@@@Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare@@@Adoption in America: Historical Perspectives (2002) (12)
- Taking Race Out of Human Genetics: Engaging a Century-Long Debate about the Role of Race in Science (2020) (11)
- Complicated legacies: The human genome at 20 (2021) (11)
- 46. The Problem with Race-Based Medicine (2019) (11)
- The Racial Geography of State Child Protection (2007) (9)
- Debating the Cause of Health Disparities: Implications for Bioethics and Racial Equality (2021) (8)
- Democratizing Criminal Law as an Abolitionist Project (2017) (8)
- SOCIAL JUSTICE AND FAMILY COURT REFORM (2005) (8)
- Foreword: The Meaning of Gender Equality in Criminal Law (1994) (8)
- Rust v. Sullivan and the control of knowledge. (1993) (7)
- Sex, Power and Taboo: Gender and HIV in the Caribbean and Beyond (2009) (7)
- The Meaning of Blacks' Fidelity to the Constitution (1997) (7)
- Welfare Reform and Families in the Child Welfare System (2002) (7)
- Social Justice, Procreative Liberty, and the Limits of Liberal Theory: Robertson's "Children of Choice" (1995) (6)
- The Community Dimension of State Child Protection (2005) (6)
- The Social Context of Oncofertility (2012) (6)
- Welfare Reform and Economic Freedom: Low-Income Mothers' Decisions about Work at Home and in the Market (2004) (6)
- The Challenge of Substance Abuse for Family Preservation Policy (1999) (6)
- RACE, GENDER, AND THE POLITICAL CONFLATION OF BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL ISSUES (2012) (5)
- 7. Welfare's Ban on Poor Motherhood (2019) (5)
- Fr om Virtual Mentor Special Contributors Structural Competency Meets Structural Racism: Race, Politics, and the Structure of Medical Knowledge 674 (2014) (5)
- What’s Wrong with Race-Based Medicine? (2011) (5)
- The Only Good Poor Woman: Unconstitutional Conditions and Welfare (1995) (5)
- Black Club Women and Child Welfare: Lessons for Modern Reform (2005) (5)
- Law, Race, and Biotechnology: Toward a Biopolitical and Transdisciplinary Paradigm (2013) (5)
- BlackCrit Theory and the Problem of Essentialism (1999) (5)
- The Unrealized Power of Mother (1995) (4)
- Black Mothers, Prison, and Foster Care (2019) (4)
- The Priority Paradigm: Private Choices and the Limits of Equality (1996) (4)
- Irrationality and Sacrifice in the Welfare Reform Consensus (1995) (4)
- Margaret Sanger and the Racial Origins of the Birth Control Movement (2009) (4)
- Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement (review) (2005) (3)
- Crossing Two Color Lines: Interracial Marriage and Residential Segregation in Chicago (2018) (3)
- Creating and Solving the Problem of Drug Use during Pregnancy (2000) (3)
- Sequential organ failure assessment, ventilator rationing and evolving triage guidance: new evidence underlines the need to recognise and revise, unjust allocation frameworks (2021) (3)
- Deviance, Resistance, and Love (1994) (3)
- Open Letter to Editors of Journal of the National Medical Association from the Black Feminist Health Science Studies Collective. (2019) (3)
- Race and Gender in the Law Review (2006) (3)
- Whose Conception of Human Flourishing? (2019) (2)
- The Politics of Race and Science: Conservative Colorblindness and the Limits of Liberal Critique (2015) (2)
- Constitutional Law: Cases, History and Dialogues (1997) (2)
- Reconciling Equal Protection Law in the Public and in the Family: The Role of Racial Politics (2014) (2)
- The Collective Injury of Sexual Harassment (2003) (2)
- The Moral Exclusivity of the New Civil Society (2000) (2)
- Social Justice, Procreative Liberty, and the Limits of Liberal and the Limits of Liberal Theory: Robertson's Children of Choice (1995) (2)
- First amendment anthology (1994) (2)
- Racial Surveillance Has a Long History (2016) (2)
- Victims and Villains in Murder by Abortion Cases from Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Chicago (2005) (2)
- ADOPTION MYTHS AND RACIAL REALITIES IN THE UNITED STATES (2021) (1)
- Loving v. Virginia as a Civil Rights Decision (2015) (1)
- Sources of Commitment to Social Justice (1998) (1)
- Why Baby Markets Aren't Free (2017) (1)
- Is Race a Social Invention? (with transcript) (2015) (1)
- Why Reproductive Justice Matters to Reproductive Ethics (2021) (1)
- The Most Shocking and Inhuman Inequality: Thinking Structurally about Poverty, Racism, and Health Inequities (2018) (1)
- Biology, Justice, and Women's Fate (1996) (1)
- Race, Care Work, and the Private Law of Inheritance (2015) (1)
- The Community Impact of Racial Disproportionality: The Racial Geography of Child Welfare (2020) (1)
- Working in Partnership: Evaluation and the Whanau development project (2002) (1)
- 9. MARGINALIZED MOTHERS AND INTERSECTING SYSTEMS OF SURVEILLANCE: PRISONS AND FOSTER CARE (2017) (1)
- Is Race a Social Invention (2015) (1)
- Learning about Race: The Lived Experiences of Interracially Married U.S.-born White and European Immigrant Women in the 1930s (2018) (1)
- Penn Law: Legal Scholarship Repository Penn Law: Legal Scholarship Repository Deviance, Resistance, and Love Deviance, Resistance, and Love (2020) (0)
- Missing Voices: Black Mothers and the Politics of Child Welfare (2001) (0)
- White Privilege and the Biopolitics of Race 1 (2010) (0)
- First Amendment Law: Cases, Comparative Perspectives, and Dialogues (2003) (0)
- Wefare Reform and Families in the Child Welfare System (2015) (0)
- AUTOMATING INEQUALITY: HOW HIGH-TECH TOOLS PROFILE, POLICE, AND PUNISH THE POOR. By Virginia Eubanks. New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press. 2018. Pp. 260. $26.99. (2019) (0)
- Life, Liberty and Babies (1998) (0)
- Book Review of Gregory M. Matoesian, Reproducing Rape (1994) (0)
- The US welfare state’s punishment of black women’s childbearing and care giving (2015) (0)
- A scholar's guide to Japan (1966) (0)
- Private Pathologies and Public Policies: Race, Class, and the Failure of Child Welfare (2020) (0)
- Unconscious Bias in Medicine (2019) (0)
- Bodies 2013 at Illinois (2013) (0)
- Centering the relationship between structural racism and individual bias (2022) (0)
- The Persistence of Prejudice (2002) (0)
- Motherhood and Crime t (2015) (0)
- Introduction: The Dialectic of Privacy and Punishment in the Gendered Regulation of Parenting (2009) (0)
- Reflections on Re-Creating Biological Race and the Entrapment of Black People (2021) (0)
- Child Welfare’s Paradox (Program) (2007) (0)
- Is Equal Access the Prescription for Equity (1995) (0)
- In vitro: a whites-only therapy, but everyone pays (through the nose) for it. (1998) (0)
- Reimagining Race, Resistance, and Technoscience (2019) (0)
- The First Amendment: Cases, History and Dialogues (2002) (0)
- Conference Keynote: White Privilege and the Biopolitics of Race (2010) (0)
- Science and Medicine (1993) (0)
- University of Pennsylvania Law School Penn Law : Legal Scholarship Repository Faculty Scholarship 1993 Rape , Violence , and Women ' s Autonomy (2015) (0)
- “It Is Likely a White Gene”: Racial Voyeurism and Consumption of Black Mothers and “White” Babies in Online News Media (2020) (0)
- Structural Competency Meets Structural Racism (2019) (0)
- Announcements (2013) (0)
- Constitutional Law: Cases, History, and Dialogues, 3rd edition (2006) (0)
- Welfare Reform and Families in the Child Welfare System (WP-02-08) (2002) (0)
- Penn Law: Legal Scholarship Repository Penn Law: Legal Scholarship Repository Child Welfare and Civil Rights Child Welfare and Civil Rights (2020) (0)
- Adrienne Asch (1946–2013) (2013) (0)
- University of Pennsylvania Law School Penn Law : Legal Scholarship Repository Faculty Scholarship 1996 Biology , Justice , and Women ' s Fate (2014) (0)
- “It Is Likely a White Gene” (2020) (0)
- Penn Law: Legal Scholarship Repository Penn Law: Legal Scholarship Repository Motherhood and Crime Motherhood and Crime (2020) (0)
- Justice , and Women ' s Fate (2015) (0)
- Announcements (2014) (0)
- A Constitutional Law Anthology, 2d edition (1997) (0)
- Structural Competency Meets Structural Racism: (2019) (0)
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