Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World

by Dorothy Roberts

Book Overview

An award-winning scholar exposes the foundational racism of the child welfare system and offers a "a brilliant and impassioned call for abolition" (Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow)

Many believe the child welfare system protects children from abuse. But as Torn Apart uncovers, this system is designed to punish Black families. Drawing on decades of research, legal scholar and sociologist Dorothy Roberts reveals...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1541675460
• ISBN13: 9781541675469
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.2"