The Dig: Policing Poor Black Families with Dorothy Roberts
Recent cases of horrific child abuse have elicited widespread media attention. What the media coverage often misses is what these incidents reveal about a two-tiered child protection system that systemically surveils, punishes,
May 12, 2018
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May 12, 2018
The Dig: Policing Poor Black Families with Dorothy Roberts
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The Dig: Policing Poor Black Families with Dorothy Roberts
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<p>Recent cases of horrific child abuse have elicited widespread media attention. What the media coverage often misses is what these incidents reveal about a two-tiered child protection system that systemically surveils, punishes, and destroys poor black families while ignoring abuses perpetrated in affluent white homes. Dan's guest is Dorothy Roberts, who has closely studied the racism and poverty policing that pervades the child-protection system.</p><p>Thanks to Verso Books. Check out Revolutio<i>n in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che</i> by Max Elbaum <a href="http://versobooks.com/books/2707-revolution-in-the-air" rel="nofollow">versobooks.com/books/2707-revolution-in-the-air</a>.</p><p></p>
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