Unruly Fertility: Race, Development, and Decolonial Reproductive Politics

Reproductive politics have become acutely urgent as we witness increased sexual and reproductive repression around the world.This reproductive repression is unfolding alongside widespread economic precarity, untenable costs of living, and demands for higher productivity.What feels like the emergence of a novel reproductive and economic dystopia, however, is a long-lasting reality for poor Black women globally.Comparing Senegal and North Carolina, Harper-Shipman shows how states and markets routinely turn to poor Black women's fertility to resolve enduring social and economic crises.Moving through formative moments that draw reproductive health, gender, race, and labor into closer proximity - from the transatlantic slave trade and colonialism through to the present - Harper-Shipman argues that reproductive health policies are essential to understanding international regimes for regulating resource distribution and recreating future stores of differentiated labor across time and space. U