Dorothy Roberts is a leading scholar and social justice advocate whose work dissects the intersections of law, race, gender, and inequality. With an unwavering focus on social justice, she examines how institutions and societal structures impact marginalized communities. Her influential writings expose deeply entrenched biases in critical areas, from reproductive rights and child welfare to scientific innovation. Roberts urges readers to critically assess modern science and politics as they reshape our understanding of race and reproduction.
Explores the ways science, politics, and large corporations affect race in the twenty-first century, discussing the efforts and results of the Human Genome Project, and describing how technology-driven science researchers are developing a genetic definition of race.
Race, Reproduction, and The Meaning of Liberty
Joshua and Timmy were friends that had found a magical land in Riverwood. Joshua followed signs to find the Wishing Tree, which was founded by his great-grandfather Thomas, an explorer. He had overcome fear and become brave enough to be worthy of the magic. Now feeling competent of trying new things and believing in what he cares about, he is looking forward to a new school year. Timmy, though his leg had healed after his accident, was told he couldn't play football this fall or even ride his bicycle yet. He became sad, angry, and lonely. Turning to the computer, he developed a skill and became very good at it. Peer pressure would cause him to question his beliefs, ideals, and values. Through conflict, he finds out who he is and learns to accept himself and others despite their differences. Both boys follow signs and clues to solve the mystery in Great-Granfather Thomas's journal.
Joshua, Timmy, Angel, and Amira work together to find the missing fairy dust and save the town from the Glum. The Glum are fairies that were banished to the underground. They are small grayish green creatures with red eyes. The Glum are very selfish and angry. If they steal the fairy dust, chaos will take over and magic will disappear.
In the Flight of Stars, Dorothy Roberts's seventh book of poetry and her first in more than a decade, is -- in her own words -- "a collection of latter-life poems," the mature work of a firm intelligence. No sentimentalist, Roberts unflinchingly confronts the polarities of birth and death, decay and renewal, the gradual passage of light, the forces of dissolution, the patterns and requirements of nature. Growing old, she observes the pleasures of age and the interwoven pattern of loss. Like the best of her earlier work, In the Flight of Stars demonstrates Roberts's ease with language, her preference for meter and movement, her interest in subtle variations of sound and her ability to combine idea and metaphor. The result is a significant collection of verse which is formal without being austere; muscular yet singularly delicate and sensuous.
An award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and offers a "a brilliant and impassioned call for abolition" (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow) Many believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as Torn Apart uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. Drawing on decades of research, legal scholar and sociologist Dorothy Roberts reveals that the child welfare system is better understood as a "family policing system" that collaborates with law enforcement and prisons to oppress Black communities. Child protection investigations ensnare a majority of Black children, putting their families under intense state surveillance and regulation. Black children are disproportionately likely to be torn from their families and placed in foster care, driving many to juvenile detention and imprisonment. The only way to stop the destruction caused by family policing, Torn Apart argues, is to abolish the child welfare system and liberate Black communities.