Roberts, Dorothy E., 1956-
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- about webpage (Dorothy Roberts is the 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology, and the Raymond Pace & Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at University of Pennsylvania. She is also the founding director of the Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society. An internationally acclaimed scholar, activist, and social critic, she has written and lectured extensively on the interplay of gender, race, and class in legal issues concerning reproduction, bioethics, and child welfare. Her latest book, TORN APART is about how the child welfare system destroys black families and how abolition can build a safer world. Dorothy is also the author of Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century ; Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty, and Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare ; She is also the co-editor of Sex, Power and Taboo: Gender and HIV in the Caribbean and Beyond, as well as of casebooks on gender and constitutional law and has published more than 100 articles and essays in books and scholarly journals, including Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, and “Race” in the 1619 Project book. ( (Dorothy Roberts website, viewed December 25, 2024) )
- Ordering the human, 2024:title page (Dorothy Roberts) back cover (Dorothy Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology, Raymond Pace & Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, professor of Africana studies, and director of the Program on Race, Science, and Society at the University of Pennsylvania.)
- First amendment anthology, 1994:CIP t.p. (Dorothy E. Roberts, assoc. prof. of law, Rutgers)
- AALS dir. of law teachers, 1988-89:(Roberts, Dorothy E., b. 1956)
- Fatal invention : how science, politics, and big business re-create race in the twenty-first century, c2011:title page (Dorothy Roberts) dust jacket (Kirkland & Ellis Professor at Northwestern University School of Law and a fellow at the Institute for Policy Research)
Dorothy E. Roberts (born March 8, 1956) is an American sociologist, law professor, and social justice advocate. She is the Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, George A. Weiss University Professor, and inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at the University of Pennsylvania. She writes and lectures on gender, race, and class in legal issues. Her focuses include reproductive health, child welfare, and bioethics. In 2023, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society. She has published over 80 articles and essays in books and scholarly journals, including Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, and Stanford Law Review. She is a 2024 recipient of the MacArthur "Genius Grant".
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