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The Black Birthing Crisis: Why Understanding Slavery & Gynecology Helps Us All
The event, “The Black Birthing Crisis: Why Understanding Slavery & Gynecology Helps Us All,” will take place Tuesday, Oct. 8, at 6 p.m. in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter (ATS) Auditorium, 360 W. Louther St. The event marks the college’s annual Morgan Lectureship. It is free and open to the public and will be livestreamed on YouTube via a link available at clarkeforum.org.
Cooper Owens will explain how racist practices, such as enslavement and Jim Crow laws, created a system which evolved into what scholars call the “Black birthing crisis,” where Black women have significantly higher maternal mortality rates than white women. Cooper Owens will also discuss our current health-care emergency, as the United States has the highest maternal mortality rate among high-income countries.
An associate professor of history and Africana studies at the University of Connecticut, Cooper Owens previously directed the program in African American history at the Library Company of Philadelphia. She also previously headed a medical humanities program at the University of Nebraska. She is a member of multiple institutions dedicated to studying history and medicine. Cooper Owens’ book, Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology, garnered the 2018 Darlene Clark Hine Book Award from the Organization of American Historians, bestowed to recognize excellence in African American women’s and gender history. Cooper Owens is now working on a popular biography on Harriet Tubman.
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