Barbara Katz Rothman Quotes

#1. We have disagreements as to what race does and ought to mean, but we have a remarkable consensus on what it is, without any ability to define it technically.

Barbara Katz Rothman

#2. You don't need the technical understanding to make the moral judgments.

Barbara Katz Rothman

#3. Birth is not only about making babies. Birth is about making mothers
strong, competent, capable mothers who trust themselves and know their inner strength.

Barbara Katz Rothman

#4. Seeing race is always about discriminating, a discerning, trained eye recognizing the "essential" or defining characteristic in the individual that confers racial categorization.

Barbara Katz Rothman

#5. It's not just the making of babies, but the making of mothers that midwives see as the miracle of birth.

Barbara Katz Rothman

#6. When you've learned to both see and not see the resemblance, then you see the uniqueness.

Barbara Katz Rothman

#7. ... People don't live in the greater scheme of things, they live in the here and now,

Barbara Katz Rothman

#8. Race is not, as I have often been reminded while working on this project, a system of classification: it is a system of oppression. There has never been, and I can't imagine how there could ever be, a way of classifying the peoples of the world that isn't also a way of controlling people.

Barbara Katz Rothman