{"product_id":"laboratory-of-deficiency-6-natalie-lira-9780520355682","title":"Laboratory of Deficiency: Sterilization and Confinement in California, 1900-1950s Volume 6","description":"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 the low intelligence, deviant sexuality, and inherent criminality of the \"Mexican race\"--shaped decisions regarding the treatment and reproductive future of Mexican-origin patients. \u003ci\u003eLaboratory of Deficiency\u003c\/i\u003e documents the ways Mexican-origin people sought out creative resistance to institutional control and offers insight into how race, disability, and social deviance have been called upon to justify the confinement and reproductive constraint of certain individuals in the name of public health and progress.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Natalie Lira\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520355687\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520355682\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 284\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Natalie Lira","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44043212947711,"sku":"9780520355682","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5bbe1d61-04ff-4396-a9da-8e11f9e07179.jpg?v=1684965879","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/laboratory-of-deficiency-6-natalie-lira-9780520355682","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}