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Alice Paul Center for Research on Gender, Sexuality, and Women Lecture: Dorothy Roberts, Professor of Law and Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
"What's So Dangerous About Black Women's Sexuality?"
Acclaimed for her pioneering work in law and public policy, Dorothy Roberts traces the long history of policing and punishing Black women’s sexuality, including current policies that sustain fearful stereotypes of Black female licentiousness. Why, Roberts asks, is Black women’s sexuality considered to be so dangerous, and how has this fear worked to impede sexual liberation more broadly?
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