Why do Black women have a nearly 400% higher risk of dying in prenatal care and childbirth? Khiara Bridges, a leading expert on race, class, and reproductive rights, joins us to spotlight the real reasons for America's racial health crisis - and how to fix it.
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Guest: Khiara Bridges
Khiara Bridges is a professor at UC Berkeley School of Law and a nationally-recognized expert on the intersection of race, class, and reproductive rights, and the maternal health crisis afflicting Black women. She has authored four books including her latest, Expecting Inequity: How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans.
SELECTED WORKS BY KHIARA BRIDGES:
- Expecting Inequity: How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans (book)
- Reproducing Race : An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization (book)
- Race in the Machine: Racial Disparities in Health and Medical AI (article)
- Racial Disparities in Maternal Mortality (law review article)
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HIGHLIGHTS OF EPISODE:
[7:53] Discrepancies in medical care between Black and white patients
[12:54] Pregnant Black women “perform class privilege” to help odds of survival
[18:49] Myth of genetic differences and “race correction” for Black patienets
[27:21] Real causes of Black patients’ increased diseases
[44:43] Black doctors improve health and survival of Black newborns
[54:39] Health care must be a basic human right for all