Well, I
think, the Census just released data, so part of it is the changing racial
demographics in the United States. For the first time in American history,
children born under the age of five are racial, the majority of them are racial
and ethnic minorities in the U.S.
So I
think that there’s a kind of moral panic, a fear of the end of whiteness that
we’ve been seeing a long time in that I think, you know, Obama’s ascension as
President kind of symbolizes to a certain degree. And so I think this is one
response to that sense that there’s a decreasing white majority in the country
and that women's bodies and white women’s bodies in particular are obviously a
crucial way of reproducing whiteness, white supremacy, white privilege. And so
I think it’s just a kind of clamping down on women’s bodies, in particular
white women's bodies, even though women of color are really caught in the fray.
