Rodney Coates
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Rodney Coates is a professor of critical race and ethnic studies at Miami University.

This is not the first period in U.S. history when white men have exercised control over women’s right to bear – or not bear – children, including during slavery.

These events have been shown to be a form of “white backlash” working to keep Black officeholders out of power and their constituents powerless without representation.