{"product_id":"laboratory-of-deficiency-9780520355675","title":"Laboratory of Deficiency","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePacific 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 immigrationparticularly ideas about the low intelligence, deviant sexuality, and inherent criminality of the Mexican raceshaped 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Without a doubt, Lira’s book makes a vital contribution to the field of the history of eugenics and reproduction, and it would certainly be of interest to scholars interested in history of reproduction and reproductive justice, Latino\/a studies, disability studies, and incarceration.\" * Technology and Culture *\u003cbr\u003e\"Thoughtful and deeply insightful. . . .This significant and well-written work…is a must-read for anyone interested in the history of eugenics and the socioeconomic and political motives that underpinned the adoption of eugenic policy.\" * California History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Note on Terminology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Life, Labor, and Reproduction at the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Disability\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Pacific Plan: Race, Mental Defect, and Population Control in California's Pacific Colony\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Mexican Sex Menace: Labor, Reproduction, and Feeblemindedness\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Laboratory of Deficiency: Race, Knowledge, and the Reproductive Politics of Juvenile Delinquency\u003cbr\u003e 4. Riots, Refusals, and Other Defiant Acts: Resisting Confinement and Sterilization at Pacific Colony\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: \"We Are Not Out of the Dark Ages Yet,\" and Finding a Way Out\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402937246039,"sku":"9780520355675","price":64.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520355675.jpg?v=1730481904","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/laboratory-of-deficiency-9780520355675","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}