... forcefully sterilized women of color and their choice to reproduce was forever stripped from them. Founded in 1997, Barbara Harris" non-profit organization, Children Requiring A Caring Kommunity (CRACK), began a modern day eugenics campaign against the poor and low-income women of color. After adopting three children from a drug-addicted mother, Harris, a middle-class, white homemaker from southern California, became angry at ... the "hoochie" and the "welfare queen," have historically characterized African American women as "unfit" mothers. In Patricia Hill Collins" Black Feminist Thou...

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