Event FinderExpecting Inequity: How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans
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- In person
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- VIRTUAL, 2111 Bancroft Way, #104, Berkeley, CA, United States
About This Event
Racism in maternal healthcare is not reserved for the poor. Wealthier black people are much more likely to die during pregnancy, childbirth, or the postpartum period than their white counterparts. Expecting Inequityfocuses on a San Francisco obstetrics clinic that caters to the affluent, examining the choices around prenatal care and childbirth that class-privileged, pregnant black people are making in order to survive what has been called the "black maternal health crisis."Khiara M. Bridges is the Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at UC Berkeley School of Law. She is a nationally-recognized expert on the intersection of race, class, and reproductive rights. Her scholarship has appeared in the most influential law reviews in the country, including the flagship law journals at Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and UC Berkeley, among many others. She is also the author of several books: Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization (2011), The Poverty of Privacy Rights (2017), and Critical Race Theory: A Primer (2019, 2026). Her fourth book, Expecting Inequity: How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans, was released in March 2026. Bridges graduated as valedictorian from Spelman College, receiving her degree in three years. She received her J.D. from Columbia Law School and her Ph.D., with distinction, from Columbia University's Department of Anthropology. She speaks fluent Spanish and basic Arabic, and she is a classically-trained ballet dancer who danced professionally in New York City for twenty years before moving to the Bay Area.