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Laboratory of Deficiency - Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900-1950s (Hardcover)
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Laboratory of Deficiency - Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900-1950s (Hardcover)
Series: Reproductive Justice: A New Vision for the 21st Century, 6
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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 resistance to institutional control and offers
insight into how 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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