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Laura Briggs

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[Wikipedia] Laura Briggs is a feminist critic and historian of reproductive politics and US empire. She works on transnational and transracial adoption and the relationship between race, sex, gender, and US imperialism. Her 2012 book Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption wo

Quotes by Laura Briggs

“Although white women as a group lost the most in welfare reform, they got the one bone that's always been thrown to…

Welfare reform

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“The primary reason that U.S. infant mortality is so high compared to other countries is that African Americans suffer a staggering rate.…

African american

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“It is important to say that the explosion of immigrant nanny and household work was not an inevitable or even direct consequence…

Family

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“Teen pregnancy is not in itself a problem, although it is a marker of a problem in a society where good jobs…

Education

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“The irony is that only by a particularly narrow definition does a Walmart job get you off welfare - as a matter…

Food stamps

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