Fourth Annual Eunice Carter Lecture—Expecting Inequity: How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans

Khiara M. Bridges, PhD, the Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and a nationally recognized expert on race, class, reproductive rights, and their intersections, will deliver the fourth annual Eunice Carter Lecture.

In this talk, Professor Bridges will discuss her new book, Expecting Inequity: How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthier Black Americans. The book draws on two years of participant observation to show how wealthier black people try to leverage their class privilege to avoid some of the negative effects of their blackness—only to discover that in a country that has never reckoned with its horrific racial past, there is no escaping racism’s reach.

The discussant will be Dr. Uché Blackstock, physician, New York Times bestselling author of Legacy, and the founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity (AHE). Introduced by Fordham Law School Professor Norrinda Brown, associate dean for experiential learning, and Catherine Powell, Eunice Carter Distinguished Research Professor of Law (currently on leave from Fordham Law as a Crane Fellow in Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs Law and Public Policy program).