Khiara M. Bridges is the Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at UC Berkeley School of Law.

Legal scholar, anthropologist, public speaker, and leading expert on the intersection of race, class, and reproductive rights Learn more ->

Image Credit: Drew Altizer

Image Credit: Drew Altizer

NEW BOOK

Expecting Inequity How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans

An unsettling exploration of the persistence of racism in reproductive healthcare in the US—and why even affluent Black women are imperiled by substandard care.

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Stunning, enraging, and extremely necessary, Expecting Inequity is a love letter to black women and an urgent call to action for everybody.
Paul Butler, MSNBC legal analyst; author of Chokehold: Policing Black Men

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With empathy, rigor, and keen legal insight, Bridges illuminates both the systemic forces behind the inequality in maternal health and the strategies black women create to protect themselves. Essential.

Dorothy Roberts, author of Torn Apart and Killing the Black Body

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Bridges is unflinching in highlighting how the US Government has not acknowledged, let alone met, its obligation to create systems that ensure high-quality maternity care for all—systems where tragedy is not converted to profit, racism is acknowledged, and distrust is met by a commitment to trustworthiness.