Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900-1950s Volume 6

Pacific Colony, a Southern California institution established to care for the "feebleminded," justified the incarceration, sterilization, and...
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Author: Natalie Lira
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Language: English
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Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900-1950s Volume 6 by Lira, Natalie

Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900-1950s Volume 6

€70,00

Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900-1950s Volume 6

€70,00
Author: Natalie Lira
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.

Author: Natalie Lira
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 11/30/2021
Pages: 284
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780520355682

About the Author
Natalie Lira is Assistant Professor of Latina/Latino Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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