Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: I want to come at the question of reproduction in the era of Donald Trump via my own work on racism and reproduction.To be sure, the unjust policies inflicted by Trump hold all bodies hostage.But I take a Black feminist approach to explore some of the reproductive issues facing Black and brown women in the United States to make the point that this moment of reproductive control has been rehearsed in earlier periods of U.S. history.I place two examples in conversation to trace racism' s imprint in the realm of reproduction.The point is to show that contemporary Black and brown bodies are inextricably entangled with past articulations of white supremacy and power.These issues are complicated and require a bit of unpacking; let me begin with an event shared with me.In November 2017, I received a message from Efe, who works as a doula-a term coined by Margaret Mead' s student Dana Raphael (1973) to describe those who support a birthing mother.Efe forms part of a growing group of politically engaged Black cisgendered, trans*, and queer birth workers currently participating in major debates around the causes of and strategies to address Black women' s ad- TRUMP, RACE, AND REPRODUCTION IN
Source: Cultural Anthropology
DOI: 10.14506/ca34.1.05
Author: Dána-Ain Davis
Institutions: The Graduate Center, CUNY, City University of New York
Language: English
Subfield: Gender Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Reduced inequalities
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2919836379