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September 1997

  • Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Libertyby Dorothy Roberts
    3.0 avg ratings, 2 reviewspublished September 16, 1997

    This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activist, and socially transformative civil rights agenda of recent years--using a black feminist lens and the issue of the impact of recent legislation, social policy, and welfare "refo...

  • Topazby Beverly Jenkins
    4.43 avg ratings, 7 reviewspublished September 21, 1997

    Kate Love is an ambitious young newspaper reporter on the trail of a railroad stock swindler who has been preying on elderly Blacks. Her investigation points to Rupert Samuels,one of the wealthiest and most eligible black men in the East, but her covert efforts to get close enoug...