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In this lecture, UC Berkeley Law Professor and Anthropologist Khiara Bridges will explore the SSHG theme of “unhealthy cities” through a chapter about the city of San Francisco, USA from her forthcoming book, tentatively titled Expecting Inequity. This ethnography is about class-privileged pregnant black people in San Francisco and their attempts to purchase an exit from obstetric racism.
Event details of Expecting Inequity: How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans
Date
26 September 2025
Time
15:30 -17:00
Room
A2.10

About Khiara M. Bridges

Khiara M. Bridges is a professor of law at UC Berkeley School of Law. She has written many articles concerning race, class, reproductive rights, and the intersection of the three. Her scholarship has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the California Law Review, the NYU Law Review, and the Virginia Law Review, among others. She is also the author of three books: Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization (2011), The Poverty of Privacy Rights (2017), and Critical Race Theory: A Primer (2019). She is a coeditor of a reproductive justice book series that is published under the imprint of the University of California Press.

She graduated as valedictorian from Spelman College, receiving her degree in three years. She received her J.D. from Columbia Law School and her Ph.D., with distinction, from Columbia University’s Department of Anthropology. While in law school, she was a teaching assistant for the former dean, David Leebron (Torts), as well as for the late E. Allan Farnsworth (Contracts). She was a member of the Columbia Law Review and a Kent Scholar. She speaks fluent Spanish and basic Arabic, and she is a classically trained ballet dancer.

Roeterseilandcampus - building A

Room A2.10
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