Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts is a professor of Africana Studies, law, and sociology at University of Pennsylvania who has written and lectured extensively on the interplay of racism and sexism in US institutions and has been a leader in transforming thinking on reproductive justice, child welfare, and bioethics. She is the author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Pantheon, 1997), Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Basic Books, 2002), Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century (New Press 2011), and more than one hundred articles and book chapters. She is also the co-editor of six books on constitutional law and gender.