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Torn apart : how the child welfare system destroys Black families--and how abolition can build a safer world / Dorothy Roberts.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roberts, Dorothy, 1956- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Child welfare--Government policy--United States.
- Child welfare.
- Child welfare--Government policy.
- Racism in social services.
- African American families--Social conditions.
- African American families.
- African American families--Government policy.
- United States.
- Racism in social services--United States.
- Social work with African American children.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 375 pages.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, 2022.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2022]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction : A benevolent terror
- Destroying Black families
- "They separate children at the Harlem border, too"
- Professional kidnappers
- Rotten at the root
- Strong-armed
- The foster-industrial complex
- Family surveillance
- Carceral entanglements
- Structured to harm
- Criminalizing Black children
- Care in place of terror.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-360) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781541675452
- 1541675452
- Publisher Number:
- 99990613596
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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