The Hidden Health Inequality Facing Even the Wealthiest Black Mothers

UC Berkeley law professor Khiara Bridges has published her fourth book, *Expecting Inequity: How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans*. The book attempts to answer why education and income do not protect Black women from disproportionately high rates of maternal mortality and complications. Bridges's research for the book included 200 interviews over two years, focusing on San Francisco, which she found mirrored healthcare segregation across the US. Her earlier work, *Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization*, examined how law produces culture and how culture, in turn, produces the law. Bridges's scholarship examines structures that lead to injustice and erasure within the maternal care system.