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Dorothy Roberts "Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty" is an expose
of the various lengths the American government has gone to to suppress black motherhood. A professor at Northwestern University and a black woman, Dorothy Roberts credentials to write such
an expose are indeed impressive. Her work provides an overview of the various atrocities which have characterized white suppression and control of black reproduction since the time of slavery
and extending into the 1970s. Black women have experienced an evolution over time in regard to the way they view themselves
in relation to the rest of the world. Indeed there has been a paradigmatic shift in their understanding of the domination which they have endured, both on the basis
of their gender and on the basis of their race and socioeconomic class. The increase in knowledge among black women regarding the matrix of domination has allowed them to
resist domination and indeed to work within the existing matrix in their search for equal footing. Black women have become empowered with knowledge. Dorothy Roberts "Killing the Black
Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty" is a reflection of that empowerment. The specifics of the control which has been exerted
over black reproduction, of course, varied according to the time period and to the social goals which were in place. In her first chapter, "Reproduction in Bondage", Roberts
illuminates the fact that Black women during slavery, for example, were viewed largely as livestock whose purpose in life was to serve their white masters and to produce more children