Horrifying racial and class injustices lie at the heart of contemporary child welfare policies in the United States, as Alan J. Dettlaff demonstrates in his recently released book, Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System: The Case for Abolition. Among the most shocking is this: Half of all Black children will be subject to a Child Protective Services (CPS) investigation…

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