[3] In 2011, Bridges received an honorable mention for the Delmos Jones and Jagna Sharff Memorial Book Prize for the Critical Study of North America.
[4] In 1999, Bridges completed her bachelor's degree in sociology after three years at Spelman College, where she served as valedictorian and graduated summa cum laude.
[2] During her time at Spelman College, Bridges worked in Atlanta as a counselor at the Feminist Women's Health Center.
Bridges focuses on how race and socioeconomic status interact and comes to the conclusion that medical professionals are influenced by racial stereotypes when making decisions about the treatment of women.
Rayna Rapp, an anthropologist who has written much on birth in the United States, commends Reproducing Race for Bridges' argument that "racist eugenics haunts contemporary hospital-speak, whatever individual intentions may be.