Name: Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics (en Inglés)
SKU: 58830026
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Author: Whatcott, Jess
ISBN: 9781478030751

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Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Autor

Jess Whatcott

Editorial

Duke University Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

248

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Peso

0.44 kg.

ISBN13

9781478030751

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Discapacidad: aspectos sociales
Lgbtq+ / estudios sobre gais y lesbianas
Estudios étnicos

Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics (en Inglés)

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In Menace to the Future, Jess Whatcott traces the link between US disability institutions and early twentieth-century eugenicist ideology, demonstrating how the legacy of those ideas continues to shape incarceration and detention today. Whatcott focuses on California, examining records from state institutions and reform organizations, newspapers, and state hospital museum exhibits. They reveal state confinement, coercive treatment, care neglect, and forced sterilization was done out of the belief that the perceived unfitness of disabled, mad, and neurodivergent people was hereditary, and thus posed a biological threat--a so-called "menace to the future." Whatcott uncovers a history of disabled resistance to these institutions that predates disability rights movements, builds a genealogy of resistance, and tells a history of eugenics from below. Theorizing how what they call "carceral eugenics" informed state treatment of disabled, mad, and neurodivergent people a century ago, Whatcott shows not only how that same logic still exists in secure treatment facilities, state prisons, and immigration detention centers, but also why it must continue to be resisted.