13 Facts About Khiara Bridges

Khiara Bridges is best known for her book, Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization, in which she argues that race and class largely affect the prenatal, childbirth, and postnatal experiences of women.

In 2011, Bridges received an honorable mention for the Delmos Jones and Jagna Sharff Memorial Book Prize for the Critical Study of North America.

Khiara Bridges then pursued a degree in law, graduating with a JD from Columbia Law School in 2002.

Khiara Bridges has worked for the Miami Herald as a reporter.

Khiara Bridges is currently a professor of law at University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

Khiara Bridges has published numerous journal articles and the book, Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization.

Khiara Bridges is on the board of directors for Pregnancy Justice [formerly National Advocates for Pregnant Women ] as well as on the Academic Advisory Council for Law Students for Reproductive Justice.

Khiara Bridges is co-editor of a University of California Press book series on reproductive justice.

Khiara Bridges is a professional dancer trained in classical ballet, and performs with Ballet Inc.

In Reproducing Race, Khiara Bridges argues that race affects the ways that women receive prenatal care and alters their experiences of hospital childbirth.

Khiara Bridges focuses on how race and socioeconomic status interact and comes to the conclusion that medical professionals are influenced by racial stereotypes when making decisions about the treatment of women.

In Reproducing Race, Khiara Bridges discusses topics such as stratified reproduction, eugenics, and the racialization of disease.

Khiara Bridges is the author of The Poverty of Privacy Rights, published in June 2017.