Khiara M Bridges
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 83190 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Khiara M Bridges |
| PRENOMES | Khiara M |
| SOBRENOME | Bridges |
| ASSINATURA | BRIDGES K M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Boston University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 4 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Expecting Inequity
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.From a leading expert on race, class, maternal health, and reproductive rights. Racism in maternal healthcare is not reserved for the poor. An unsparing picture of inequities in prenatal care and childbirth in the United States, Expecting Inequity reveals that not only are black people thr…
In the wake of the Dobbs decision
In August 2025, the editors of American Ethnologist interviewed anthropologists Khiara M. Bridges and Angel M. Foster about reproductive justice, activism, and scholarship in the wake of the US Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022), which eliminated the federally protected right to abortion in the United States. Bridges and Foster both have forthcoming books that discuss reproductive rights and justice fr…
Still Searching for Zora Neale Hurston
A review of Their Eyes Were Watching God. By Zora Neale Hurston
Pregnancy and the Carceral State
A Review of Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood. by Michele Goodwin
Seeing the Window, Finding the Spider
A professional and moral medical education should equip trainees with the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively advance health equity. In this Perspective, we argue that critical theoretical frameworks should be taught to physicians so they can interrogate structural sources of racial inequities and achieve this goal. We begin by elucidating the shortcomings in the pedagogic approaches contemporary Biomedical and Social Determinants of He…
The Moral Construction of Poverty
Reproducing Race
Reproducing Race , an ethnography of pregnancy and birth at a large New York City public hospital, explores the role of race in the medical setting. Khiara M. Bridges investigates 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. Bridges argues that race carries powerful material consequences for these women even when it is not …
Critical Race Theory
This highly-readable primer on Critical Race Theory (CRT) examines the theory’s basic commitments, strengths, and weaknesses. In addition to serving as a primary text for graduate and undergraduate Critical Race Theory seminars or courses on Race and the Law, it can also be assigned in courses on Antidiscrimination Law, Civil Rights, and Law and Society. The book can be used by any reader seeking to understand the relationship between constructio…
Introduction
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The Poverty of Privacy Rights
The Poverty of Privacy Rights makes a simple, controversial argument: Poor mothers in America have been deprived of the right to privacy. The U.S. Constitution is supposed to bestow rights equally. Yet the poor are subject to invasions of privacy that can be perceived as gross demonstrations of governmental power without limits. Courts have routinely upheld the constitutionality of privacy invasions on the poor, and legal scholars typically under…
Feminism at the Intersections
Pregnancy, Medicaid, State Regulation, and Legal Subjection
For 18 months in 2007 and 2008, the author conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the obstetrics clinic of a large, public hospital in Manhattan, New York. The large majority of patients who receive their prenatal care from this obstetrics clinic rely on the Medicaid-funded Prenatal Care Assistance Program to cover their medical expenses. As a condition of receipt of this aid, women are required to meet with a battery of professionals—namely social …
Pushing for Midwives
An Anthropological Meditation on Ex Parte Anonymous
It is easy to ignore Ex parte Anonymous. 1 It is simple to dismiss it as an inconsequential decision, perfunctorily handed down by the Alabama Supreme Court, about matters that fail to rise to any level of jurisprudential importance.The decision involves no questions of constitutional interpretation, no issues of international import, no matters of obvious historical significance.Instead, the facts of the case might concern the stuff of primetime…
Seeing the Window, Finding the Spider
A professional and moral medical education should equip trainees with the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively advance health equity. In this Perspective, we argue that critical theoretical frameworks should be taught to physicians so they can interrogate structural sources of racial inequities and achieve this goal. We begin by elucidating the shortcomings in the pedagogic approaches contemporary Biomedical and Social Determinants of He…
Pregnancy, Medicaid, State Regulation, and Legal Subjection
For 18 months in 2007 and 2008, the author conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the obstetrics clinic of a large, public hospital in Manhattan, New York. The large majority of patients who receive their prenatal care from this obstetrics clinic rely on the Medicaid-funded Prenatal Care Assistance Program to cover their medical expenses. As a condition of receipt of this aid, women are required to meet with a battery of professionals—namely social …
An Anthropological Meditation on Ex Parte Anonymous
It is easy to ignore Ex parte Anonymous. 1 It is simple to dismiss it as an inconsequential decision, perfunctorily handed down by the Alabama Supreme Court, about matters that fail to rise to any level of jurisprudential importance.The decision involves no questions of constitutional interpretation, no issues of international import, no matters of obvious historical significance.Instead, the facts of the case might concern the stuff of primetime…
Pregnancy, Medicaid, State Regulation, and Legal Subjection
For 18 months in 2007 and 2008, the author conducted ethnographic fieldwork in the obstetrics clinic of a large, public hospital in Manhattan, New York. The large majority of patients who receive their prenatal care from this obstetrics clinic rely on the Medicaid-funded Prenatal Care Assistance Program to cover their medical expenses. As a condition of receipt of this aid, women are required to meet with a battery of professionals—namely social …
Pushing for Midwives
Introduction
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
The Poverty of Privacy Rights
The Poverty of Privacy Rights makes a simple, controversial argument: Poor mothers in America have been deprived of the right to privacy. The U.S. Constitution is supposed to bestow rights equally. Yet the poor are subject to invasions of privacy that can be perceived as gross demonstrations of governmental power without limits. Courts have routinely upheld the constitutionality of privacy invasions on the poor, and legal scholars typically under…
Feminism at the Intersections
Critical Race Theory
This highly-readable primer on Critical Race Theory (CRT) examines the theory’s basic commitments, strengths, and weaknesses. In addition to serving as a primary text for graduate and undergraduate Critical Race Theory seminars or courses on Race and the Law, it can also be assigned in courses on Antidiscrimination Law, Civil Rights, and Law and Society. The book can be used by any reader seeking to understand the relationship between constructio…
Reproducing Race
Reproducing Race , an ethnography of pregnancy and birth at a large New York City public hospital, explores the role of race in the medical setting. Khiara M. Bridges investigates 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. Bridges argues that race carries powerful material consequences for these women even when it is not …
The Moral Construction of Poverty
Pregnancy and the Carceral State
A Review of Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood. by Michele Goodwin
Seeing the Window, Finding the Spider
A professional and moral medical education should equip trainees with the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively advance health equity. In this Perspective, we argue that critical theoretical frameworks should be taught to physicians so they can interrogate structural sources of racial inequities and achieve this goal. We begin by elucidating the shortcomings in the pedagogic approaches contemporary Biomedical and Social Determinants of He…
Still Searching for Zora Neale Hurston
A review of Their Eyes Were Watching God. By Zora Neale Hurston
In the wake of the Dobbs decision
In August 2025, the editors of American Ethnologist interviewed anthropologists Khiara M. Bridges and Angel M. Foster about reproductive justice, activism, and scholarship in the wake of the US Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022), which eliminated the federally protected right to abortion in the United States. Bridges and Foster both have forthcoming books that discuss reproductive rights and justice fr…
Expecting Inequity
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.From a leading expert on race, class, maternal health, and reproductive rights. Racism in maternal healthcare is not reserved for the poor. An unsparing picture of inequities in prenatal care and childbirth in the United States, Expecting Inequity reveals that not only are black people thr…
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