Mass Incarceration and 21st Century Eugenics

Mass Incarceration and 21st Century Eugenics
Jennifer James, Assistant Professor, Institute for Health & Aging, Dept. of Social & Behavioral Sciences, and UCSF Bioethics, University of California, San Francisco
In this talk, I will briefly trace the history of family and reproductive control in the US and highlight the role mass incarceration plays in this eugenic legacy. I will describe the forced sterilizations that occurred inside California prisons and contextualize the atrocity of those procedures within the larger landscape of reproductive oppression and abuse occurring daily in prisons and jails.
Sponsored by: ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine, Center for the Study of Law and Society, Center for Race and Gender, Othering and Belonging Institute Diversity & Health Disparities Cluster
March 22, 2023