title: A reproductive justice perspective on the Purvi Patel case.
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 US court 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?
authors.affiliation: Assistant Professor, Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, State University of New York at Albany, Social Science-353, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany, NY 12222, United States,. rbhatia2@albany.edu.
authors.forename: Rajani
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bhatia
mesh_terms: D000022:Abortion, Spontaneous; D000328:Adult; D044466:Asian People; D003416:Criminal Law; D005260:Female; D006708:Homicide; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D011247:Pregnancy; D063505:Racism; D012098:Reproduction; D063507:Sexism; D012935:Social Justice; D014481:United States