Sterilization and Reparations

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Readings and materials recommended by Natalie Lira

Recommended Articles:

• Disproportionate Sterilization of Latinos Under California’s Eugenic Sterilization Program, 1920–1945 (2018), American Journal of Public Health.
• California’s Sterilization Survivors: An Estimate and Call for Redress (2017), American Journal of Public Health.
• Historical Misfeasance: Immorality to Justice in Public Health (2017), American Journal of Public Health.

Supplementary readings:

• Gutiérrez, Elena R. 2008. Fertile Matters: The Politics of Mexican-Origin Women’s Reproduction. Austin: University of Texas Press.
• Roberts, Dorothy. 1998. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty. New York: Vintage.
• Stern, Alexandra Minna. 2005. Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America. Berkeley: University of California Press.
• Washington, Harriet A. 2007. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentationon Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present. New York: Harlem Moon.
• It's Past Time to Compensate Survivors of Eugenic Sterilization (2019), Biopolitical Times.

Films:

• Dawn Sinclair Shapiro. 2017. The State of Eugenics.
• Cohn, Erika. 2017. Belly of the Beast.
• Tajima-Peña, Rene. 2015. No Más Bebés.
• The Young Turks in conjunction with The Center for Investigative Reporting. 2013. Sterilized Behind Bars.

Podcasts or Audio: 

• Mexican Americans and Eugenic Sterilization: Resisting Reproductive Injustice in California, 1920–1950 (2014), Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies

Publications featuring the work of Natalie Lira

• Mexican Americans Sterilized Disproportionately In California Institutions, Study Says (2013) Huffington Post
• America's secret history of forced sterilization: Remembering a disturbing and not-so-distant past (2016) Salon