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An expert on reproductive politics and transnational and transracial adoption, Laura Briggs has appeared in print, broadcast and digital media to explain these complex issues.  She has been featured on PBS and in national publications including Slate, InStyle and Ms. Magazine.

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Professor Laura Briggs is an expert on U.S. and international child welfare policy and on transnational and transracial adoption. Briggs' most recent book, Taking Children: A History of American Terror (University of California Press, 2020), examines the 400-year-old history of the United States’ use of taking children from marginalized communities—from the taking of Black and Native children during America’s founding to the Donald Trump’s policy of family separation for Central American migrants and asylum seekers at the U.S./Mexico border—as a violent tool for political ends.

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Abortion has once again become a hotly contested issue in the United States. UMass Amherst Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Laura Briggs is the author of How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics. Briggs joined Carrie Saldo to discuss the politics of abortion and the history of abortion in the United States.

The Politics of Abortion with UMass Prof. Laura Briggs | Connecting Point | June 11, 2019

Chair of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at University of Massachusetts-Amherst Laura Briggs discusses her new book "How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump." (Taped: 08/10/2017)

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All Politics is Reproductive - Laura Briggs

All Politics is Reproductive - Laura Briggs | The Open Mind

Today all politics are reproductive politics, argues esteemed feminist critic Laura Briggs. From longer work hours to the election of Donald Trump, our current political crisis is above all about reproduction. Households are where we face our economic realities as social safety nets get cut and wages decline. Briggs brilliantly outlines how politicians’ racist accounts of reproduction—stories of Black “welfare queens” and Latina “breeding machines"—were the leading wedge in the government and business disinvestment in families. With decreasing wages, rising McJobs, and no resources for family care, our households have grown ever more precarious over the past forty years in sharply race-and class-stratified ways. This crisis, argues Briggs, fuels all others—from immigration to gay marriage, anti-feminism to the rise of the Tea Party.

Speaker Laura Briggs is Professor and Chair of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Introduction by Emma Amador, Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at CSREA. 

https://www.brown.edu/academics/race-ethnicity/events/2017/12/laura-briggs-how-all-politics-became-reproductive-politics

How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: Laura Briggs

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