Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System | A Busboys and Poets Books Presentation
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Sep 6, 2023
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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In Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System, Alan J. Dettlaff presents a call to abolish the child welfare system due to the harm and destruction it causes Black families. By tracing the history of family separations since the era of slavery, Dettlaff demonstrates that the intended outcomes of those separations—the subjugation of Black Americans and (more…)