Archie Chen

“The powerful Western image of childhood innocence does not seem to benefit Black children. Black children are born guilty.”
― Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

“This construct of the licentious temptress served to justify white men’s sexual abuse of Black women. The stereotype of Black women as sexually promiscuous also defined them as bad mothers. The”
― Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

“Along with these disparaging images of Black mothers, the media increasingly portray Black children as incapable of contributing anything positive to society.”
― Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

“Even after Emancipation, political and economic conditions forced many Black mothers to earn a living outside the home.31 At the turn of the century nearly all Black women worked long days as sharecroppers, laundresses, or domestic servants in white people’s homes.”
― Dorothy Roberts, Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty