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There is a global crisis in maternal health care for black women. In the United States, black women are over three times more likely to perish from pregnancy-related complications than white women; their babies are half as likely to survive the first year. Many black women experience policing, coercion, and disempowerment during pregnancy and childbirth and are disconnected from alternative birthing traditions. This book places black women's voices at the center of the debate on what should be done to fix the broken maternity system and foregrounds black women's agency in the emerging birth justice movement. Mixing scholarly, activist, and personal perspectives, the book shows readers how they too can change lives, one birth at a time.
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“A truly original and innovative book―and an absolute necessity in the current field of research on reproduction.”
―Christa Craven, College of Wooster, author of Pushing for Midwives: Homebirth Mothers and the Reproductive Rights Movement.

“With its commitment to placing black women at the center of the conversation and scholarship about their own lives and the value it places on agency, activism, and putting scholarship to work for the purpose of social change, Birthing Justice makes an important and much-needed contribution to the small but growing number of books examining reproductive justice. This anthology of black women’s experiences of pregnancy and childbirth is long overdue.”
―Jeanne Flavin, Fordham University, author of Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women’s Reproduction in America.

About the Author

Julia Chinyere Oparah is Professor and Chair of Ethnic Studies at Mills College and a founding member of Black Women Birthing Justice. She is co-editor of Activist Scholarship: Antiracism, Feminism and Social Change and Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption

Alicia D. Bonaparte is Associate Professor of Sociology at Pitzer College and a medical sociologist with a specialization in reproductive health and health disparities. She is currently working on a book on the lives of granny midwives in South Carolina.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge; 1st edition (February 11, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 246 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1138191450
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1138191457
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.01 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.98 x 0.56 x 9.02 inches
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Julia Chinyere Oparah is a transformational leader, executive coach, social justice educator, and activist scholar. Oparah has published extensively on black maternal health, decarceral politics, research justice and transnational black feminisms. She is co-founder of Black Women Birthing Justice, and co-author of Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy and Childbirth, a seminal text that puts black women at the center of debates about the crisis in maternal health care. She is lead author of Battling Over Birth, a human rights report that challenges existing research paradigms used to investigate black women’s perinatal health, using a research justice framework. More recently she has published on Black birthworkers and Birthing mamas during the COVID-19 pandemic. Chinyere is a National Equity Project fellow and member of the Center for Executive Coaching. She lives in Oakland with her partner, daughter and labradoodle. She can be found at the Center for Liberated Leadership.

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NOT AT ALL what I expected for a $207.00 book
This book has 197 pages. By page 90 your are on chapter 9 of 21. Each chapter is very short and anecdotal; not scholarly. As you can see in the photo I included, the entire book's "conclusion" is ONE paragraph long. While the birth stories within are important and worthy of publishing; I certainly do not believe a $200.00 dollar price tag is at all justified. Not at all what I expected. I am requesting a full refund.
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Amy L. Gilliland
5.0 out of 5 stars Birthing Today In A Racist Culture
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2016
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Birthing Justice is an anthology of perspectives on the issues facing Black and African American people today as they try to birth their babies with respect in a racist culture. As a White birth professional for over thirty years, I have no doubts that Women of Color receive different care than White women. Their unique history of being exploited for medical research and receiving substandard care creates distrust of the obstetrical system. But the present condition of mothers and babies dying at twice the rate of White women makes them dependent on the same system to keep their babies alive. The resurgence of Black and African American people midwifing and doulaing each other through the peripartum period is an expression of solidarity and power that will do much in the long run to end racial disparities.
The perspectives offered in this book are personal, historical, political, and uplifting. I find it inspiring when women band together to create change to better their own and their children's lives, and to create options for others. What this book offers that no other does is multiple perspectives on a complex issue, grounded in contemporary dialogues about race and disparities in perinatal care. There is anger and sadness in this book, but mostly compassion and a call to action. Birthing Justice informs about what people's experiences are like and what those of us who are outsiders need to know to understand the reproductive justice movement. Like the pregnant person featured on the cover, Birthing Justice looks you in the eye and dares you to look away again after hearing their voices.
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Chaw
5.0 out of 5 stars love it.
Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2019
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very important book for birth workers.
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LGSilverSpring
5.0 out of 5 stars She will love it.
Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2016
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This is a gift for my daughter who is a birth doula. She will love it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2017
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This book is so important. Everyone must read it
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Megan
4.0 out of 5 stars Important Information for Healthcare Providers
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2021
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This was a well put-together work shedding light on the importance of equity and justice for black, indigenous, people of color, and trans-gender birthers. It covered many facets of continuing disparities in the medical institution, prison institution, and even in the alternative birthing institution. I wasn't aware of the history/foundation of modern/medical childbirth and the horrors that black women have endured in order for the advancements that we have today. There is much work to be done for birthing rights and Birthing Justice explains the issues in depth while sharing stories of the Black women who are paving the way with grassroots efforts.

Not an easy read, and no easy answers. There was another review that stated there weren't many "solutions" offered, but I feel that this type of work is calling for us to bring the solutions.
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Vivi
2.0 out of 5 stars NOT AT ALL what I expected for a $207.00 book
Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2021
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This book has 197 pages. By page 90 your are on chapter 9 of 21. Each chapter is very short and anecdotal; not scholarly. As you can see in the photo I included, the entire book's "conclusion" is ONE paragraph long. While the birth stories within are important and worthy of publishing; I certainly do not believe a $200.00 dollar price tag is at all justified. Not at all what I expected. I am requesting a full refund.
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Vivi
2.0 out of 5 stars NOT AT ALL what I expected for a $207.00 book
Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2021
This book has 197 pages. By page 90 your are on chapter 9 of 21. Each chapter is very short and anecdotal; not scholarly. As you can see in the photo I included, the entire book's "conclusion" is ONE paragraph long. While the birth stories within are important and worthy of publishing; I certainly do not believe a $200.00 dollar price tag is at all justified. Not at all what I expected. I am requesting a full refund.
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Nasser israel
2.0 out of 5 stars Birth Justice or Birth Talk?
Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2021
More talk about what's wrong, less planning for action among Black women.
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MamaTeri
5.0 out of 5 stars It's a wonderful book on a world that is being exposed and nurtured
Reviewed in Canada on September 23, 2019
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I love this book, I'm so pleased I am reading this for my education as a childbirth educator. We need this information out there so we can make real change.
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Lia Galante
5.0 out of 5 stars A reality check
Reviewed in Australia on January 24, 2019
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A difficult and very worthwhile read. Highlighting the past and sadly, current position regarding birthing justice. Makes you grateful for the progress made by determined individuals and movements, but makes your blood boil at how far we have yet to go.
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