Natalie Lira
Published: 2021-11-30
Total Pages: 284
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Terminology -- Introduction: Life, Labor, and Reproduction at the Intersections of Race, Gender, and Disability -- 1. The Pacific Plan: Race, Mental Defect, and Population Control in California's Pacific Colony -- 2. The Mexican Sex Menace: Labor, Reproduction, and Feeblemindedness -- 3. The Laboratory of Deficiency: Race, Knowledge, and the Reproductive Politics of Juvenile Delinquency -- 4. Riots, Refusals, and Other Defiant Acts: Resisting Confinement and Sterilization at Pacific Colony -- Conclusion: "We Are Not Out of the Dark Ages Yet," and Finding a Way Out -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.