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

by Natalie Lira

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520355679
• ISBN13: 9780520355675
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"