Expecting Inequity
How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans
$54.40
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
28 April 2026
Summary
An unsettling exploration of the persistence of racism in maternal healthcare in the US—and why even affluent Black women are imperiled by substandard care.
From a leading expert on race, class, maternal health, and reproductive rights.
Racism in maternal healthcare is not reserved for the poor. An unsparing picture of inequities in prenatal care and childbirth in the United States, Expecting Inequity reveals that not only are Black people three to four times more lik…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262051552 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262051559 |
| Author: | Khiara Bridges |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 28 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 152mm x 229mm |
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REVIEWS
“The result of two years of investigation, Expecting Inequity exposes structural inequities within the healthcare system that are inescapable no matter your income or wealth.”
—The Nation
“Bridges is unflinching in highlighting how the US Government has not acknowledged, let alone met, its obligation to create systems that ensure high-quality maternity care for all—systems where tragedy is not converted to profit, racism is acknowledged, and distrust is met by a commitment to trustworthiness.”
—The Lancet
“By now, you’ve heard the stark statistics about Black maternal health in the U.S. Here, Khiara Bridges shows that this is the case even among the wealthiest Black Americans.”
—Ms.
“Illuminating.”
—Marin Magazine
ENDORSEMENTS
“With empathy, rigor, and keen legal insight, Bridges illuminates both the systemic forces behind the inequality in maternal health and the strategies black women create to protect themselves. Essential.”
—Dorothy Roberts, author of Torn Apart and Killing the Black Body
“Stunning, enraging, and extremely necessary, Expecting Inequity is a love letter to black women and an urgent call to action for everybody.”
—Paul Butler, MSNBC legal analyst; author of Chokehold: Policing Black Men
“A powerful indictment of systemic failure, Bridges’s Expecting Inequity compels us to build a healthcare system where wealth no longer determines whose lives are protected.”
—Uché Blackstock, MD, founder and CEO, Advancing Health Equity; New York Times best-selling author of Legacy: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine
“This must-read book will hold each of us accountable for what needs to happen to solve the black maternal health crisis.”
—Michele Goodwin, author of Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood
Khiara Bridges
Khiara M. Bridges is Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law. Her books include Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization.
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