Laboratory of deficiency: sterilization and confinement in California, 1900-1950s
Introduction : Life, labor, and reproduction at the intersections of race, gender, and disability -- The Pacific plan : mental deficiency, racialization, and sterilization in California's pacific colony -- The Mexican sex menace : labor, reproduction, and feeblemindedness -- The laboratory of d...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California
University of California Press
[2022]
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Reproductive justice: a new vision for the twenty-first century (6)
Year: 2022 |
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| Summary: | Introduction : Life, labor, and reproduction at the intersections of race, gender, and disability -- The Pacific plan : mental deficiency, racialization, and sterilization in California's pacific colony -- The Mexican sex menace : labor, reproduction, and feeblemindedness -- The laboratory of deficiency : race, knowledge, and the reproductive politics of juvenile delinquency -- Riots, refusals, and other defiant acts : resisting confinement and sterilization at Pacific colony. "Pacific Colony, a Southern California institution established to care for the "feebleminded," justified the incarceration, sterilization, and forced mutilation of some of the most vulnerable members of society from the 1920s through the 1950s. Institutional records document the convergence of ableism and racism in Pacific Colony. Analyzing a vast archive, Natalie Lira reveals how political concerns over Mexican immigration-particularly ideas about the low intelligence, deviant sexuality, and inherent criminality of the "Mexican race"-shaped decisions regarding the treatment and reproductive future of Mexican-origin patients. Laboratory of Deficiency documents the ways Mexican-origin people sought out creative ways to resist institutional control and offers insight into the ways race, disability, and social deviance have been called upon to justify the confinement and reproductive constraint of certain individuals in the name of public health and progress"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 268 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780520355675 9780520355682 |