In late 2019, I had the chance to sit down with doula and community organizer Tamara Thompson, founding member of the Milwaukee-based Black radical doula collective Maroon Calabash.[i] We were meeting to think about possible speakers to invite to a convening around reproductive justice. Thompson said that she was reading an amazing new book that I might have heard …
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Dána-Ain Davis’s Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth (NYU Press, 2019) is a vividly written ethnography highlighting how medical racism shapes birth outcomes for Black women in America. Under the sign of maternal health risk and prematurity, Davis argues, the American medical system forces Black women to participate in a limited array of interventions informed by theories of wellness …