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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:
- “Take Two® | Audio: In the Eugenics Era, Mexican American Women Were Prime Targets of Sterilization in California | 89.3 KPCC.”
- Hidden Brain: Emma, Carrie, Vivian: How a Family Became a test Case for Forced Sterilization
- Radiolab: G: Unfit.
Additional Publications by Natalie Lira
- 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