Dorothy Roberts, acclaimed scholar of race, gender and the law at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare joins the WBI show with co-founder of Movement for Family Power, Lisa Sangoi to discuss the history of the American child welfare system. Better understood as a family regulation system, the state began systematically targeting Black families for punishment and surveillance as a matter of *child welfare* policy in the 1960s coinciding with mainly Black mothers demanding inclusion into public assistance programs.

Why do so few people know about the multibillion dollar surveillance apparatus able to knock on the door and remove your child on the basis of racist stereotypes with not even as much as miranda rights being read? How can we begin to dismantle a system that articulates its violence in the language of care and benevolence?

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