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Dorothy E. Roberts (born March 8, 1956) is an American sociologist, law professor, and social justice advocate. She is the Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, George A. Weiss University Professor, and inaugural Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at the University of Pennsylvania. She writes and lectures on gender, race, and class in legal issues. Her focuses include reproductive health, child welfare, and bioethics. In 2023, she was elected to the American Philosophical Society. She has published over 80 articles and essays in books and scholarly journals, including Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, and Stanford Law Review. Background Roberts was born in Chicago, Illinois, to a white father and Jamaican-born mother, who raised her in a politically active household in Hyde Park. Her father was an anthropologist, and her mother was his research assistant. Roberts' parents met at the University of Chicago, where her father was her mother's professor in her PhD program. (She left without finishing her degree to care for their children). Roberts received her Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Yale University and her Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. She has been a professor at Rutgers and Northwestern University, a visiting professor at Stanford and Fordham, and a fellow at Harvard University's Program in Ethics and the Professions, Stanford's Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and the Fulbright Program. She serves as chair of the board of directors of the Black Women's Health Imperative, on the board of directors of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform, and on the advisory boards of the Center for Genetics and Society and Family Defense Center. She also serves on a national panel that is overseeing foster care reform in Washington State and on the Standards Working Group of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (stem cell research). She has received awards from the National Science Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Roberts met her husband, Coltrane Chimurenga (born Randolph Simms) when they were both students at Harvard. Chimurenga was active in the Pan-Africa movement and in socialist causes. They had two sons, Amilcar and Camillo Chimurenga. Coltrane Chimurenga passed away in 2009. Author Roberts has published more than 50 articles and essays in books, scholarly journals, newspapers, and magazines, including Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, University of Chicago Law Review, Social Text, and The New York Times. She has written Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Basic Civitas Books, 2002) and Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty (Pantheon Books, 1997), in which she purports to give "a powerful and authoritative account of the on-going assault—both figurative and literal—waged by the American government and our society on the reproductive rights of Black women." and was the co-author of casebooks on constitutional law and women and the law. Killing the Black Body received a 1998 Myers Center Award for the Study of Human Rights in North America. Her article, "Punishing Drug Addicts Who Have Babies: Women of Color, Equality, and the Right of Privacy" (Harvard Law Review, 1991), has been widely cited. Fatal Invention (The New Press, 2011) argues that America is once again on the brink of classifying population by race. Roberts has received much praise for her work from notable sources such Publishers Weekly and Anthony D. Romero, executive director, American Civil Liberties Union. Lecturer/professor Roberts has delivered several endowed lectures, including the James Thomas Lecture at Yale Law School. She was elected twice by the Rutgers University School of Law graduating class to be faculty graduation speaker, and was voted outstanding first-year course professor by the Northwestern University School of Law class of 2000. She received the Radcliffe University Graduate Society Medal in June 1998. Her current projects concern race and child welfare policy. Roberts has been a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford University. In 2002–03, she was a Fulbright Scholar at the centre for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago, where she conducted research on family planning policy and on gender, sexuality, and HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean. She is currently conducting research on the significance of the spatial concentration of state supervision of children in African American communities and on the use of race in biomedical research and biotechnology. Roberts is featured in the documentary film, Silent Choices, about abortion and reproductive rights from the perspective of African Americans. Roberts also served as an advisor to the film. In 2019, Roberts gave the Betsy Wood Knapp '64 Lecture at Wellesley College. Her topic for this lecture was "The Problem with Race-Based Medicine." In the lecture, Roberts asserts that race, in medicine, is used as a proxy for the more complex aspects of health and disease that should require further investigation. Roberts notes that this topic is especially relevant in the age of genomic science where the desire is to reduce all aspects of disease and infection to a genetic origin. According to Roberts, this is an inaccurate assumption and can powerfully impact the medical treatment of women, children, and African-Americans. Views Roberts has drawn parallels between what she sees as current U.S. imperialism and white supremacy. She has asserted that U.S. torture of terrorist suspects is a tool to maintain supremacy just as violence has been used to maintain white supremacy, and has compared the treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison to racist lynchings of blacks. Roberts has asserted that women should be able to choose if they bear a child and how they raise it. However, she notes that these decisions are often dependent on the social conditions in which women live, any discrimination they face, and whether they value the idea of childbearing. Roberts also concludes that this choice, along with the choice to have a relationship with the child, must be respected by the state and by society, which does not happen to Black women who are often subject to government interference during their parenthood. In her views on reproductive justice, Roberts includes issues of social justice as well in order to ensure that women and men are able to make independent, informed reproductive decisions when it comes to whether or not to have children and their relationships with their children. Roberts has been a vocal critic of Israel. Following Oct. 7, 2023, Roberts signed on to a letter consisting of sociologists who accused Israel of attempting to commit "genocide and ethnic cleansing" against the people of Gaza and called Israel an "apartheid regime." In February 2014, Roberts posted a defense of the Boycott, Divestment,.... Discover the Dorothy Roberts popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Dorothy Roberts books.
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A Man of Affairs
John D. MacDonaldSam Glidden owed all his success to the opportunities he'd received from Thomas McGann, president of the Harrison Corporation. But now McGann was dead, and Mike Dean, a wildly flam...
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Area of Suspicion
John D. MacDonaldFour years ago Gevan Dean found his fiancée Niki Webb in his brother Ken's arms and fled his hometown for a peaceful life in the Florida sun. But now Ken is dead murdered by a thi...
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Death Trap
John D. MacDonaldIn life, Jane Ann never had much use for a halo, but in her violent death she finally earned one. When they found a suspect, everyone relaxed except Hugh MacReedy.Maybe he should h...
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Ghostmaker
Victor DaviesIn the great tradition of DAY OF THE JACKAL, a chillingly tense tale of assassination and betrayal.Captain Jack Boulder was his regiment's rifle champion, and runnerup for the Quee...
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You Live Once
John D. MacDonaldClint Sewell knew there wasn't a wife within fifty miles who didn't have reason to murder Mary Olan because there wasn't a husband around who didn't think the grass was greener in...
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Soft Touch
John D. MacDonaldJerry Jamison wants out: out of a sloppy marriage, a dull job and the empty suburban rat race. Once Jerry had a beautiful bride and a good salary at her old man's successful busine...
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The Good Old Stuff
John D. MacDonaldFrom the author of the worldfamous Travis McGee thrillers, thirteen of John D. MacDonald's earliest and best crime and mystery stories brought together in one volume.Written at the...
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Border Town Girl
John D. MacDonaldContains the two novellas Border Town Girl and Linda. Border Town GirlOnce, Lane Sanson had been a Somebody war correspondent and a bestselling author. Now he was a ...
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Slam the Big Door
John D. MacDonaldWhen Mike Rodenska, a former journalist and recent widower, visits his old friend Troy Jamison in Florida, he's shocked at what he finds. For despite the parties, the shapely women...
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Hurricane
John D. MacDonaldA hurricane of terrifying intensity is looming over Florida. Along a state highway, a handful of foolhardy souls trying to outrun the storm are forced to seek shelter in an abandon...
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No Deadly Drug
John D. MacDonaldIndicted by the state of New Jersey for the murder of retired Colonel William Farber. Dr Carl Coppolino had been having an affair with Farber's wife, Marjorie.Did he kill Marjorie'...
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Too Many Murderers
Guy Compton & D.G. ComptonClassic crime from the 1960s from a master of suspenseThe first novel in the acclaimed Ben Anderson series.'Compton has been one of Britain's most original and consistent novelists...
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The 100 Best Romance Novels
Jennifer Lawler & Crimson Romance Editors"My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you." Mr. Darcy, Pride and PrejudiceThe taboo affair of Jane and Mr. Rochester. The...
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Getting Away With It
Victor DavisClassic thriller from the author of QUEENS' RANSOMWhen a ruined City of London office block is bought for demolition, noone sheds a tear except for construction tycoon Vernon Gatli...
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Flesh in the Age of Reason
Roy Porter'As an introduction to early modern thinking and the impact of past ideas on present lives, this book can find few equals and no superiors. Porter is a witty, humane writer with an...
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Lights Out Liverpool
Maureen LeeNumber One bestseller Maureen Lee's first novel of the hugely popular Pearl Street series.'With her talent for storytelling, queen of sagawriting Maureen Lee weaves intrigue, love ...
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The Neon Jungle
John D. MacDonaldThe Varaki family run the local grocery store, but tragedy hits the family hard. The sudden death of the matriarch of the clan is followed by the favourite son's death in Korea. Th...
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Seven
John D. MacDonaldA choice collection of seven short stories by one of America's foremost storytellers and the author of the bestselling Travis McGee series.Featuring 'Dear Old Friend', 'The Annex',...
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The Last One Left
John D. MacDonaldWhen a yacht explodes in the Bahamas, apparently killing six people, Sam Boyleston, an attorney from Texas and the brother of one of the victims, is compelled to investigate the ci...
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More Good Old Stuff
John D. MacDonaldOffering indisputable evidence of the early talent that was to lead him to the top of the bestseller lists everywhere, these fourteen tales of crime and corruption, of sleuthing an...
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A Bullet for Cinderella
John D. MacDonaldHer veneer was big city ... But one look and you knew that Toni Raselle's instincts were straight out of the river shack she came from. I watched her as she toyed with the man, lau...
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Medium for Murder
Guy Compton & D.G. ComptonEven in the world of murder, things are not always as they seem...When Ben Anderson first came to stay at Buckleigh Combe in North Devon he found more than a few obstacles to overc...
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April Evil
John D. MacDonaldThe stage was set. Harry Mullin had hit town first. But he had just made the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, and he was a little nervous about being seen. With him at the rented house ...
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The Season
Charlotte BinghamAn immensely readable drama of period society that you WILL NOT be able to put down. Authored by the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham, perfect for...
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Barrier Island
John D. MacDonaldTucker Loomis is a hard and dangerous man with a ruthlessness all West Bay fears and respects, and an improbable amount of money. Wade Rowley is a common man who aspires to honour ...
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One More Sunday
John D. MacDonaldWelcome to the Eternal Church of the Believer, where devout workers operate stateoftheart computer equipment to process the thousands of dollars that pour in daily and where hundre...
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Cry Hard, Cry Fast
John D. MacDonaldA gunman on the run, a seventeenyearold girl on a family vacation, a jaded working girl, a guiltstricken widower, an abandoned mistress. All heading fast down a route to sudden dea...
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The Only Girl in the Game
John D. MacDonaldHer employers are the high priests of Las Vegas and she is their handmaiden. Her job is to lead the lambs to the sacrifice, to keep them happy at the tables, where her partners sla...
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Dorothy M. Guhlke v. Roberts Truck Lines
Supreme Court of MinnesotaCertiorari upon the relation of Doughboy Industries, Inc., employer, and Continental Casualty Company, its insurer, to review a decision of the Industrial Commission awa...
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The Beach Girls
John D. MacDonaldLeo Rice seems like a nice enough guy, but why does he have to choose their beach? He could head ten miles up the Florida strip and everyone could just live happily ever after no ...
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Please Write for Details
John D. MacDonaldAmerican bachelor Miles Drummond, living in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and running out of money, halfheartedly places an ad in a few US newspapers announcing a summer art workshop. Much t...
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One Monday We Killed Them All
John D. MacDonaldStep by step, Dwight McAran built a wall of vicious hate around himself. It was easy. He was a man who could slap one woman to death because she loved him, and hum a love song to a...
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A Flash of Green
John D. MacDonaldJames Wing was only trying to help his friend's widow. At least that's what he told himself after he warned Kat Hubble that the beautiful bay that she and her neighbours had strugg...
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And Murder Came Too
Guy Compton & D.G. ComptonIt's murder in a sleepy French fishing village . . .Crime writer Ben Anderson was hoping for a peaceful honeymoon sailing in Europe. He's solved four murders in the last three year...
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The End of the Night
John D. MacDonaldThree men and a beautiful girl on a crosscountry terror spree a coast to coast rampage of stealing, kidnapping, rape and killing.Who were they? Where did they come from? Why did t...
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Murder for the Bride
John D. MacDonaldDillon Bryant, a successful engineer, is off on assignment after finishing his honeymoon. But news from home comes that his new bride, Laura, a beautiful woman whom he had met only...
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The Drowner
John D. MacDonaldLucille Hanson had rid herself of the wrong man her rich husband who lived casually and loved carelessly. Then she found another man she hoped would be right. She was putting toge...
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Cancel All Our Vows
John D. MacDonaldFletcher Wyant and his wife Jane had been married for fifteen years. They had built the perfect marriage two wonderful kids, a warm beautiful home, and their own private neverendi...
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The Price of Murder
John D. MacDonaldOn the surface, they seem like three very different people: Danny Bronson, a cunning excon struggling to go straight; his brother, Lee, a former Gridiron star turned college profes...
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The Crossroads
John D. MacDonaldMore than half a century ago, Papa Drovek opened his small grocery store at the junction of two country roads. As he bought more and more land, the roads became highways, and now t...
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On the Run
John D. MacDonaldSid Shanley couldn't stay in one place very long. He had to keep on the run, changing towns, changing jobs, changing women. He worked out the perfect setup no attachments, no trai...
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Contrary Pleasure
John D. MacDonaldFor years the Delevan family image reflected only the best of everything wealth, position, influence, and the kind of expensive good looks that take generations to cultivate. No o...
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A Key to the Suite
John D. MacDonaldCorporate hatchetman Hubbard is on his way to an industry convention to carry out a termination a fancy way of saying he's about to toss a man and his family out in the street. Bu...
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Deadly Welcome
John D. MacDonaldAlex Doyle is a tough man on a tough assignment in Ramona Beach, Florida the kind of place that doesn't trust strangers and is policed by a sheriff who echoes the locals' sentimen...
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The Brass Cupcake
John D. MacDonaldIn Flower City, a sleepy resort town on Florida's Gulf Coast, wealthy Elizabeth Stegman is murdered in a jewel heist gone bad her missing jewels insured for £750,000.It falls to h...
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The Deceivers
John D. MacDonaldHer name was Cindy, and she was his neighbour's wife the woman next door in the kind of suburbia that didn't make headlines. These were real people, nice people like Cindy and Car...
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Dead on Cue
Guy Compton & D.G. ComptonA deadly role becomes murder in the theatre...When writer Ben Anderson goes to Downshead Repertory Theatre company to see the rehearsals for his first play, he is not prepared for ...