Vol , Issue Date of Publication: May 19, 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20529/IJME.2016.070

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A reproductive justice perspective on the Purvi Patel case

Rajani Bhatia
Abstract:
In the spring of 2015, news media across the world displayed images of a young, South Asian American woman in handcuffs, her long, untied black hair flowing forward and shielding her face as a Caucasian male police officer led her into a UScourt room. In another image, mug shot frontal and profile views of her face as a criminal, dotted online press reports, blogs and the social media. Although criminalised people of colour occupy a permanent space in the US media, her image jars. What is a young woman from a so-called "model minority" doing in handcuffs?


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