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Online Talk with Laura Briggs & Her New Book: “Taking Children: A History of American Terror”

Taking Children: A History of American Terror argues that for four hundred years the United States has taken children for political ends.
As Laura Briggs’s sweeping narrative shows, the practice played out on the auction block, in the boarding schools designed to pacify the Native American population, in the foster care system used to put down the Black freedom movement, at the border where children are ripped from their parents…
“Taking Children offers an alarming new perspective on US child welfare policy as political state violence and dispels the still common and misguided view that it is a form of benevolent protection of children…”
—Dorothy E. Roberts, author of Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare
Laura Briggs is Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is also the author of How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump.
RB author events are co-sponsored by Revolution Books in New York, Revolution Books in Berkeley, and Revolution Books Education Fund.










When: Tue., Jun. 23, 2020 at 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Where: Revolution Books
437 Malcolm X Blvd./Lenox Ave. @132nd St
212-691-3345
Price: Free--you can donate!
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Taking Children: A History of American Terror argues that for four hundred years the United States has taken children for political ends.
As Laura Briggs’s sweeping narrative shows, the practice played out on the auction block, in the boarding schools designed to pacify the Native American population, in the foster care system used to put down the Black freedom movement, at the border where children are ripped from their parents…
“Taking Children offers an alarming new perspective on US child welfare policy as political state violence and dispels the still common and misguided view that it is a form of benevolent protection of children…”
—Dorothy E. Roberts, author of Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare
Laura Briggs is Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is also the author of How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump.
RB author events are co-sponsored by Revolution Books in New York, Revolution Books in Berkeley, and Revolution Books Education Fund.
Buy tickets/get more info now