Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts is a 2024 MacArthur Foundation’s “Genius” Grant Winner

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Biography of Dorothy Roberts

Dorothy Roberts is the George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she directs the Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society. The author of four books, including Killing the Black Body, she lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Roberts is a 2024 MacArthur Foundation’s “Genius” Grant Winner, for ”Exposing racial inequities embedded in social service systems and uplifting the experiences of people caught up in them.“ Photo credit © John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation-used with permission.

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4 Books by Dorothy Roberts


Book Cover Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World by Dorothy Roberts

Torn Apart

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Book Cover Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, And Big Business Re-Create Race In The Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts

Fatal Invention

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Book Cover Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare by Dorothy Roberts

Shattered Bonds

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Book Cover Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts

Killing the Black Body

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