• Eugenics, Disability and Latinx Communities. With Dr Natalie Lira

  • Dec 7 2021
  • Length: 47 mins
  • Podcast

Eugenics, Disability and Latinx Communities. With Dr Natalie Lira

  • Summary

  • Dr. Natalie Lira is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Latina/Latino Studies in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. Dr. Lira’s research looks into the largely neglected racial aspects of California’s eugenic sterilization program by providing evidence of the disproportionate institutionalization and sterilization of Mexican-origin women and men in state hospitals for the disabled during the first half of the twentieth century....
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