Reproductive Injustice – Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth Davis Hardback

Reproductive InjusticeRacism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth\nAuthor(s): Dna-Ain Davis\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: New York University Press, United States\nImprint: New York University Press\nISBN-13: 9781479812271, 978-1479812271\nSynopsis\nWinner, 2020 Senior Book Prize, given by the Association of Feminist Anthropology\n Winner, 2020 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, given by the Society for Medical Anthropology\n Honorable Mention, 2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing, given by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology\n Finalist, 2020 PROSE Award in the Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology category, given by the Association of American Publishers\n A troubling study of the role that medical racism plays in the lives of Black women who have given birth to premature and low birth weight infants\n Black women have higher rates of premature birth than other women in America. This cannot be simply explained by economic factors, with poorer women lacking resources or acces.