Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Her latest book is Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World.

The Racial Capitalism of Care

A recording and transcript of our event on inequities in medicine and child welfare.

  • Ruha Benjamin
  • Bram Wispelwey
  • Michelle Morse
  • Dorothy Roberts

The “Benevolent Terror” of the Child Welfare System

The system’s roots aren’t in rescuing children but in the policing of Black, Indigenous, and poor families.

  • Dorothy Roberts
  • nia t. evans

A World Without Race

Does black nationalism have to go too?

  • Dorothy Roberts

Race, Class, and Care

Race, Class, and Care

  • Dorothy Roberts
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