{"product_id":"menace-to-the-future-jess-whatcott-9781478030751","title":"Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics","description":"In \u003ci\u003eMenace to the Future\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 that state confinement, coercive treatment, care neglect, and forced sterilization were 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jess Whatcott\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478030755\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478030751\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/13\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d","brand":"Jess Whatcott","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46094458781951,"sku":"9781478030751","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_db634d56-4bef-400c-9b1b-e7af63b14910.jpg?v=1724844719","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/menace-to-the-future-jess-whatcott-9781478030751","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}