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How does Roberts link stereotypes of black women to social, legal and…

- - - - Family wage/ Patriarchy
        
        white widowed mothers were the intended goal for welfare.
        
        As of 1931"only 3 percent of recipients were black"
        
        Black women activist fought for black women to receive public assistance through years of continual discrimination
        
        "by 1967, a welfare caseload that had once been 86% white had become 46% nonwhite (Roberts, 46)"
        
        (Family wage)"prescribes earnings as the sole responsibility of husbands and unpaid domestic labor as the only proper long-term occupation for women (Roberts,204)"
- - - - CORNELIA WHITNER
        
        A PREVIOUS OFFENDER
        
        Whitner was given negligible options from the judge
        
        1year in prison, 3 years probation NOROPLANT INJECTED INTO ARM
        
        Seven years in prison #
        
        Whitner discovered that due to her poor physical help, it would be negligent for her to receive a subscription of Norplant. The judge's orders violated her constitutional rights. Even after her refusal, insisted that she abide by the agreement.
      - DARLENE JOHNSON
        
        Whitner was arrested for endangering the life of her unborn child by smoking crack.
        
        Judge Frank Epps applied his own stereotypical biases to her case.
        
        "Is this a crack baby?"
        
        "WHY WOULDN'T YOU JUST TAKE A PISTOL AND PUT IT IN YOUR MOUTH AND BLOW YOUR HEAD OFF"
        
        The judge perception of a woman who is addicted to drugs and who is carrying a child and clearly sees no value in the life of the child nor mother. #
        
        NOT A PREVIOUS OFFENDER
      - "PROSECUTORS AND JUDGESSEE POOR BLACK WOMEN AS SUITABLE SUBJECTS FOR THESE REPRODUCTIVE PENALTIES BECAUSE SOCIETY DOES NOT VIEW THESE WOMEN AS SUITABLE MOTHERS IN THE FIRST PLACE (Roberts, 152) " # #
- - - - Welfare policies designed to discourage childbearing will disproportionately affect Black women and have these very women in mind
        
        "Worse yet, welfare has taken on a new social role: it is no longer seen as charity but as a means of modifying poor people's behavior(Roberts,202)"
        
        The welfare state has excluded blacks from its system since the beginig leaving many black women and children in poverty.
        
        Justification for black women's oppression
        
        Family Cap=CHILD EXLUSION
        
        For women who had a second child, some states wouldn't provide assistance to the second child if born to unwed teens or single mothers on AFDC
        
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