#  Reproducing Race: Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **October 24, 2014** 

 02:00PM - 03:00PM EDT 

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 **Boylston Hall 103, Harvard Yard**  



 

 



 

A talk by Khiara M. Bridges, JD, PhD  
Associate Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Anthropology Boston University

*Free and open to the public.*

 ![cover image for Khiara Bridges' book ](/sites/g/files/omnuum8271/files/wgs/files/reproducing_race.jpg)

 

In her groundbreaking book, [***Reproducing Race***](http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520268951), an ethnography of pregnancy and birth at a large New York City public hospital, Dr. Khiara M. Bridges explores the role of race in the medical setting.In her talk, Dr. Bridges will investigate how race – commonly seen as biological in the medical world – is socially constructed among women dependent on the public healthcare system for prenatal care and childbirth.

Weaving ethnographic evidence into broader discussions of Medicaid and racial/ethnic disparities in infant and maternal mortality, Bridges will shine new light on the politics of healthcare for the socially and economically marginalized – demonstrating how the “medicalization” of social problems reproduces racial/ethnic stereotypes and governs the bodies of poor women of color.

[Dr. Khiara M. Bridges](http://www.bu.edu/law/faculty/profiles/bios/full-time/bridges_k.html) holds a B.A. from Spelman College, J.D. from Columbia Law School, and Ph.D., with distinction, from Columbia University’s Department of Anthropology.



 

 



 

 

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