![]() ![]() She argues that child-welfare workers are effectively punishing families, particularly Black families, because they are poor. Her new book, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World, applies that scrutiny to the American child-protective system-a web that Roberts believes doesn’t deserve that name. There’s a reason Roberts has such a large following: She has a track record of writing about social problems in ways that both researchers and laypeople recognize to be real. Several people watched from chairs the store’s owners placed on the sidewalk, within earshot of a speaker and in view of a screen in the front window. ![]() ![]() The in-store audience, the event organizer told me, reached fire-code limits. When I caught up with Dorothy Roberts, a professor of law, sociology and civil rights at the University of Pennsylvania, she had just finished a packed book talk at Revolution Books, a small, aptly named bookstore in Harlem. ![]()
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