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- W314796702 abstract "This Article analyzes the relationship between the struggle for the recognition of women's reproductive rights in the United States and the fight for racial Specifically, it argues the problematization of poor women's fertility--evidenced by the depiction of single motherhood as a national crisis, (1) the condemnation of poor who rely on public assistance, (2) and the portrayal of their children as an embryonic class (3)--ought to be understood as a form of contempt for women's reproductive rights. (4) Differently stated, the lack of acknowledgment in legal, political, and popular discourse motherhood is a legitimate choice for poor demonstrates their right to reproduce is disparaged. Further, this censure of poor women's fertility ought to be understood not only as a failure of the reproductive rights movement, but also as a matter of racial injustice. That is, the struggle of poor to have their reproductive choices respected is a struggle for racial equality. Conceptualizing women's reproductive rights struggles as a racial injustice may seem counterintuitive. This is in part due to the widespread exclusion of gender-related issues from social movements for racial equality. (5) Many feminists have noted the paradigmatic subject of racial justice movements has been the man, while the paradigmatic subject of gender justice movements has been the woman. (6) As political scientist Shatema Threadcraft recently commented, that our understanding of contemporary race problems is dominated by issues of criminal justice and public education, and our understanding of gender politics assumes the biggest struggles have faced are around access to legitimate public roles, reveals troubling gender and racial bias, respectively. (7) In a similar vein, legal theorist Dorothy Roberts recounts an incident where she was asked to speak at a forum entitled Civil Rights Under Attack. Recent Supreme Court Decisions. (8) After giving a speech addressing obstacles facing in their struggle for reproductive autonomy, Roberts was criticized by a male audience member, who admonished her to stick to traditional civil rights concerns, such as affirmative action, voting rights, and criminal justice. (9) This list of civil rights priorities reveals a male subject--the subject for whom matters of racial justice have historically, and now intuitively, been thought to concern. This paper seeks to regender the subject of racial justice movements and to comprehend the denial of women's reproductive rights as a contemporary race problem. Two conceptualizations of race influence this paper. The first is a commonsensical understanding of race, which conceives of it as a visually distinct expression of phenotype. In Parts I and II, this definition of race predominates. Thus, references to women here refer to who are because they possess the skin color, facial features, and hair texture are commonly associated with the race. (10) However, subsequent Parts rely on a more expansive understanding of race--using the term to denote categories of phenotypic expression as well as relative stations of marginalization and privilege. As Cheryl Harris aptly explains: Black and White signify ideological concepts and do not operate as phenotypic markers.... [They] are relationally constructed. Whiteness is the position of relative privilege marked by distance from Blackness; Blackness, on the other hand, is a legal and social construction of disadvantage and subordination marked by the distance from privilege. (11) Accordingly, Blackness is a position occupied not only by who are Black because their appearance accords with historical understandings of race, but also those who, for sundry reasons, find themselves disqualified from privilege. …" @default.
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- W314796702 title "Quasi-Colonial Bodies: An Analysis of the Reproductive Lives of Poor Black and Racially Subjugated Women" @default.
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