Khiara Bridges: Race, Poverty and Privacy

Join us for a conversation about race, poverty, and privacy in medical care, and what humanist values require.In this talk, Khiara Bridges will discuss the research that she has conducted with poor mothers and mothers-to-be, focusing on their experiences with state regulation and surveillance. She hopes to engage the audience in a conversation about what we can do -- as individuals and a community -- to ensure that poor people are treated with the dignity and humanity that they deserve.Khiara M. Bridges is a professor of law and professor of anthropology at Boston University. She has written many articles and books concerning race, class, reproductive rights, and the intersection of the three. She is the author of Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization (2011), published by the University of California Press. Her second book, The Poverty of Privacy Rights, published by Stanford University Press, was released in June 2017. In addition to her life as an academic, she is a classically trained ballet dancer who continues to perform professionally in New York City.