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Torn apart : how the child welfare system destroys Black families--and how abolition can build a safer world
Title
Torn apart : how the child welfare system destroys Black families--and how abolition can build a safer world / Dorothy Roberts.
ISBN
9781541675452 (electronic bk.)
1541675452 (electronic bk.)
9781541675445
1541675444
Edition
First edition.
Publication
New York : Basic Books, 2022.
Copyright Notice Date
©2022
Physical Description
1 online resource (vii, 375 pages) : illustration.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Other formats
Original
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 30, 2022
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-360) and index.
Contents
Introduction : A benevolent terror
Destroying Black families
"They separate children at the Harlem border, too"
Professional kidnappers
Rotten at the root
Strong-armed
The foster-industrial complex
Family surveillance
Carceral entanglements
Structured to harm
Criminalizing Black children
Care in place of terror.
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