Torn apart : how the child welfare system destroys Black families--and how abolition can build a safer world
by Roberts, Dorothy E., 1956- (Author)
Summary
In this book, an award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and calls for radical change. Many believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as this book uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. Drawing on decades of rese... Full description
- Introduction : A benevolent terror
- Terror.
- Destroying Black families ;
- "They separate children at the Harlem border, too" ;
- Professional kidnappers
- Design.
- Rotten at the root ;
- Strong-armed ;
- The foster-industrial complex
- The carceral web.
- Family surveillance ;
- Carceral entanglements ;
- Structured to harm ;
- Criminalizing Black children
- Abolition.
- Care in place of terror.