Torn Apart is the inaugural podcast in our Ms. Book Club Series. Hosted and co-produced by Professor Dorothy Roberts, this limited series podcast in four parts is based on her award-winning book, Torn Apart. In the podcast, she examines the child welfare system and advocates for abolishing family policing and reimagining child welfare. Tune in to hear the voices of impacted families, family defenders, activists, and scholars. In the final episode of the Torn Apart podcast, Dorothy...
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Torn Apart is the inaugural podcast in our Ms. Book Club Series. Hosted and co-produced by Professor Dorothy Roberts, this limited series podcast in four parts is based on her award-winning book, Torn Apart. In the podcast, she examines the child welfare system and advocates for abolishing family policing and reimagining child welfare. Tune in to hear the voices of impacted families, family defenders, activists, and scholars. In the final episode of the Torn Apart podcast, Dorothy...
In this episode, Torn Apart shows that the child welfare system was designed from its beginning to oppress marginalized communities. The episode explores how the child welfare system's roots in slavery, settler colonialism, and white supremacy, taking listeners on a journey to the separation of enslaved children from their mothers on plantations and the return of freed Black children to former enslavers as court-ordered apprentices. It uncovers how over time, the child welfare sys...
Ms. Book Club
Torn Apart is the inaugural podcast in our Ms. Book Club Series. Hosted and co-produced by Professor Dorothy Roberts, this limited series podcast in four parts is based on her award-winning book, Torn Apart. In the podcast, she examines the child welfare system and advocates for abolishing family policing and reimagining child welfare. Tune in to hear the voices of impacted families, family defenders, activists, and scholars. In the final episode of the Torn Apart podcast, Dorothy...
