{"product_id":"expecting-inequity-isbn-9780262051552","title":"Expecting Inequity","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn unsettling exploration of the persistence of racism in reproductive healthcare in the US—and why even affluent Black women are imperiled by substandard care. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e From a leading expert on race, class, maternal health, and reproductive rights.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRacism in maternal healthcare is not reserved for the poor. An unsparing picture of inequities in prenatal care and childbirth in the United States, \u003ci\u003eExpecting Inequity\u003c\/i\u003e reveals that not only are black people three to four times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause, but racial disparities in maternal mortality persist across income levels. That is, wealthier black people are much more likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth, or the postpartum period than their white counterparts. Focusing on a San Francisco obstetrics clinic that caters to the affluent, Khiara Bridges looks at the choices around prenatal care and childbirth that class-privileged, pregnant black people are making in order to survive what has been called the “black maternal health crisis.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBridges, whose previous work exposed how race and racism are embedded in maternal healthcare for the poor, draws on two years of participant-observation to show how wealthier black people try to leverage their class privilege to avoid some of the negative effects of their blackness—only to discover that in a country that has never reckoned with its horrific racial past, there is no escaping racism’s reach. Throughout the book, engaging, heartbreaking, infuriating stories of women’s experiences with pregnancy and prenatal care illustrate how race and racism matter regardless of wealth or status.\u003cb\u003eENDORSEMENTS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With empathy, rigor, and keen legal insight, Bridges illuminates both the systemic forces behind the inequality in maternal health and the strategies black women create to protect themselves. Essential.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Dorothy Roberts, author of \u003ci\u003eTorn Apart\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eKilling the Black Body\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Stunning, enraging, and extremely necessary, \u003ci\u003eExpecting Inequity\u003c\/i\u003e is a love letter to black women and an urgent call to action for everybody.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Paul Butler, MSNBC legal analyst; author of \u003ci\u003eChokehold: Policing Black Men\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A powerful indictment of systemic failure, Bridges’s \u003ci\u003eExpecting Inequity\u003c\/i\u003e compels us to build a healthcare system where wealth no longer determines whose lives are protected.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Uché Blackstock, MD, founder and CEO, Advancing Health Equity; \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eLegacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This must-read book will hold each of us accountable for what needs to happen to solve the black maternal health crisis.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Michele Goodwin, author of \u003ci\u003ePolicing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eKhiara M. Bridges is Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law. Her books include \u003ci\u003eReproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233156182245,"sku":"NP9780262051552","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262051552.jpg?v=1767726532","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/expecting-inequity-isbn-9780262051552","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}