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  title info:
    title: Birthing Justice
  name:
    name part: N. Matthews, Monique
    role:
      role term: film director.
  name:
    name part: Video Project (Firm)
    role:
      role term: dst
  name:
    name part: Kanopy (Firm)
    role:
      role term: dst
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Documentary films.
  genre: Nonfiction films.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (86 minutes): .flv file, sound
  abstract: Black women in the United States are three to five times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than their white peers, a statistic that has actually gotten worse over the last 30 years. BIRTHING JUSTICE captures the experiences and challenges of Black women, their families, caretakers and advocates, and examines the structures and systems that determine these disparate mortality rates.The film addresses the myriad issues fueling the maternal health crisis within the African American community while advocating for best practices that enhance birthing equity for all women, especially Black women. This national epidemic is addressed via four regions - Washington, D.C., Augusta, GA, Missouri, and California - by speaking with those who have been affected by current policies as well as those who are at the forefront of advancing policy change. Through the telling of personal experiences a picture emerges of a systemic lack in the maternal healthcare based on race. To contextualize those deficiencies, the film also explores American medical history, revealing how the impacts of eugenics and a sweeping medical report called The Flexner Report continue to impact medical training for Black doctors and outcomes for Black patients over a century after they were conceived.Through these stories, what emerges again and again as one of the chief solutions to Black maternal health is a diversified medical labor force, with surveys revealing persistent implicit biases across the field. The film also looks other ways that positive maternal and pregnancy outcomes are achieved for Black mothers, including incorporating and training doulas and in-hospital nurse-midwives, and pending congressional legislation. Transforming this narrative of tragedy into one of hope, BIRTHING JUSTICE flips the victim-blaming paradigm by centering on the lived experiences of Black women and their advocates as they fix a broken system and transform the future, one birth at a time.
  target audience: Contains footage and images of childbirth and prenatal examinations which may not be suitable for all audiences. Viewer discretion is advised.
  note: director, Monique N. Matthews ; written by Jacoba Atlas and Monique N. Matthews ; producer, Sasheen Artis ; production of Women in the Room Productions.
  note: Title from title frames.
  note: Originally released as a documentary in 2023.
  note: In English with optional English subtitles; closed captioned.
  note: Director of photography, Clare Major ; editors, Sam Citron, Nathalie Karouni, Chris Meyers.
  subject:
    topic: Discrimination in medical care
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: African American women
    topic: Medical care
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Maternal health services
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Prenatal care
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Health and race
    geographic: United States
  identifier: 15135618 Kanopy
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: KI2
    record creation date: 241217
    record change date: 20260202190001.7
    record identifier: in00005678746
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng