Description: "'Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth' explores the issues of racism, medicine, and motherhood"--
Brief description: Dána-Ain Davis is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Urban Studies, Director and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies, and Director, Center for the Study of Women and Society, CUNY Graduate Center. She is author, co-author, or co-editor of five books, including our Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth, which received 2020 Honorable Mention for the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing; was a finalist for the 2020 PROSE AWARD, given by the Association of American Publishers; and was listed as one of seven books on anti-racism in New York Magazine.
Review Quotes: "Davis explores how medical racism impacts black women... The work is unique in that it is the first to focus on the subject as it relates to professional working women and provides evidence that black women across all classes still have a higher rate of premature births than other women."-- "Library Journal"