Anti-Bodies: Black Women, Reproduction, and Obstetric Racism with Dana Davis

Join Dana-Ain Davis for a virtual talk on the way one Black woman’s laboring experience is shaped by obstetric racism. Thinking through her medical encounters, Davis considers how Black bodies are degraded and ushered toward mistreatment and how obstetric racism produces traumatic repercussions, including being cast as an “Anti-Body.” Dána-Ain Davis is Professor of Urban Studies and Anthropology at Queens College, City University of New York, and the director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society at the Graduate Center. In the last decade, Davis has focused on reproduction, race, and the technologies that assist reproduction. She has written several articles addressing issues of reproduction and racism, including The Politics of Reproduction: The Troubling Case of Nadya Suleman, Obstetric Racism: The Racial Politics of Pregnancy, Labor, and Birthing, and The Bone Collectors. She is the author, co-author, or co-editor of five books, the most recent being Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth, which examines medical racism in the lives of professional Black women who have given birth prematurely. A zoom link will be sent to registrants within 24 hours of the event or email alum@sarahlawrence.edu.

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