Desiree Valentine

Contemporary US discourse on reparations focuses on the suppression of Black economic interests, but the harms of slavery are not exhausted by the labor expropriation of slaves and its concomitant wealth accumulation for white individuals and the United States. Reproductive oppression was constitutive of the institution of slavery, and its harms continue to reverberate today. This project therefore develops an account of reproductive reparations and argues that reparations platforms must center reproductive abuses, broadly construed. Reparative justice, it argues, must be reproductively minded and aim to bring about conditions of reproductive flourishing.