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6. What Slavery Engendered: An Intersectional Look at 1619
Intersectionality Matters!
The Story of Black Women's Enslavement and Forced Reproduction
Black women's enslavement and forced reproduction paints Black women as the scapegoat for all sorts of social problems. It just seems natural that the government should be able to regulate the childbearing of Black women because Black women are dangerous reproducers. And it's so powerful that you can have stereotypes and images like the Black welfare queen who was supposed to have children just to get a welfare check, which is ludicrous. But that ludicrous myth that was completely rooted in these notions of Black female depravity and dangerous childbearing was powerful enough to fuel a movement to end welfare.
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