I was sitting with Dorothy Roberts’s Killing the Black Body when a question came to me: what if Dorothy Roberts were a class? Not a guest lecture. Not one assigned chapter tucked into a week on race. Not a brief appearance in a course whose central assumptions remain untouched. What if her body of work formed the foundation of an entire course? I began imagining that course because Roberts’s books do more than address several important subjects. Read together, four of them fo

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