... and culture, which undermined the authority of the concept of race (without abolishing it altogether). The chapter explores eugenics, and moves on to specific genetic studies of blood types. serology eugenics antiracism ...

... exposes how this extreme belief in innovation as a panacea covers over and worsens structural injustices that undermine reproductive and disability justice. After unraveling the colonial and neoliberal eugenic logics behind many emerging and speculative technologies, the chapter examines what...

...Prologue<subtitle>Detention Is Eugenics</subtitle> The prologue briefly examines the relatively new practice of detaining migrants in for-profit detention centers in the United States through the lens of eugenics. Although attention to the sterilization of migrants has made it to mainstream...

... The introduction describes how institutions for the confinement of disability were shaped by the philosophy of eugenics in the early twentieth century. Disability institutions are part of what Liat Ben-Moshe calls the “carceral industrial complex.” Abolitionist knowledge of carceral spaces...

... a gender analysis, this chapter also expands on what Angela Y. Davis calls the “punishment continuum” by naming how eugenics institutions operated specifically as sites for the punishment of those assigned to the category of girls and women. carceral industrial complex treatment punishment...

... This chapter follows the money, situating eugenics institutions in the political economic transformation of California at the turn of the twentieth century. Transitioning from laissez-faire, Progressives sought to establish a scientific, administrative state as the solution to the threats...

... In two parts, this chapter first describes how middle-class clubwomen imagined a maternalist, caring state that could enact eugenics consensually. This imaginary is shown in the utopian novel Herland published by Charlotte Perkins Gilman in 1915. The second half of the chapter speculates...

... that countered the devaluation of migrant lives. Accompaniment with migrants means challenging carceral eugenics. The epilogue argues that to dismantle eugenics means abolishing entire systems of incarceration, institutionalization, and detention that exposes migrants to illness, injury, premature aging...

... Chapter 5 moves the geographic to consider how ideas about Kenya as a prelapsarian space traveled to the metropole and beyond. It focuses on the romance novels of Nora Strange, arguing that they presented readers with an image of Kenya as a “eugenic landscape,” a space that separated fit...

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