Sterilization versus segregation: Control of the ‘Feebleminded’, 1900–1938

Racialization and Reproduction: Asian Immigrants and California’s Twentieth-Century Eugenic Sterilization Program

“…Intersectionality Theory and the Gendered Racism Model ( Crenshaw 2018 ; Espiritu 1997 ; Liu and Wong 2018 ) best explain our results, wherein Asian women and men experienced unique but related discrimination within California’s eugenic sterilization program. Institutionalization ( Radford 1991 ), deportation ( Stern 2016 ), and exploitative labor practices ( Espiritu 1997 ; Price, Darity Jr., and Sharpe 2020 ; Shah 2011 ) as potential forms of eugenically motivated discrimination may have manifested more strongly for Asian-born men than for women, whereas similar eugenic motivations may have manifested as a greater disproportionality in sterilization rates for Asian-born women over a longer period. Our results indicating Asian-born men only had higher sterilization rates than the US-born men “in group” for part of the study period are perhaps less surprising in this context.…”

Racialization and Reproduction: Asian Immigrants and California’s Twentieth-Century Eugenic Sterilization Program

“…Intersectionality Theory and the Gendered Racism Model ( Crenshaw 2018 ; Espiritu 1997 ; Liu and Wong 2018 ) best explain our results, wherein Asian women and men experienced unique but related discrimination within California’s eugenic sterilization program. Institutionalization ( Radford 1991 ), deportation ( Stern 2016 ), and exploitative labor practices ( Espiritu 1997 ; Price, Darity Jr., and Sharpe 2020 ; Shah 2011 ) as potential forms of eugenically motivated discrimination may have manifested more strongly for Asian-born men than for women, whereas similar eugenic motivations may have manifested as a greater disproportionality in sterilization rates for Asian-born women over a longer period. Our results indicating Asian-born men only had higher sterilization rates than the US-born men “in group” for part of the study period are perhaps less surprising in this context.…”

An historical geography of liberty: Lancashire and the Inebriates Acts

“…The passage of the Mental Deficiency Act of 1913 changed this by introducing the possibility of permanent segregation. 113 The new Act did provoke concerns about liberty. An early draft made provision for the involuntary committal of defectives, that 'they should be deprived of the opportunity of procreating children'.…”

A systematic review of graduate training on cultural competence

“…The mental health care field, alongside countless other fields and disciplines, have failed to actively resist these oppressive philosophies and instead have allowed them to permeate and persist (Constantine, 2007;Tasca et al, 2012;Tievsky, 1988). Consequently, across a number of instances, diagnoses and treatment have been disenfranchising through the advancement of discriminatory theories (e.g., Morton's theory of craniometry, idea of "feeble-mindedness"; Allen, 1984;Radford, 1991). Moreover, research in the field of mental health has been grounded in ideas of homophobia, white supremacy, and misogyny (Hall, 2014).…”

Racialization and Reproduction: Asian Immigrants and California’s Twentieth-Century Eugenic Sterilization Program

“…Intersectionality Theory and the Gendered Racism Model ( Crenshaw 2018 ; Espiritu 1997 ; Liu and Wong 2018 ) best explain our results, wherein Asian women and men experienced unique but related discrimination within California’s eugenic sterilization program. Institutionalization ( Radford 1991 ), deportation ( Stern 2016 ), and exploitative labor practices ( Espiritu 1997 ; Price, Darity Jr., and Sharpe 2020 ; Shah 2011 ) as potential forms of eugenically motivated discrimination may have manifested more strongly for Asian-born men than for women, whereas similar eugenic motivations may have manifested as a greater disproportionality in sterilization rates for Asian-born women over a longer period. Our results indicating Asian-born men only had higher sterilization rates than the US-born men “in group” for part of the study period are perhaps less surprising in this context.…”

An historical geography of liberty: Lancashire and the Inebriates Acts

“…The passage of the Mental Deficiency Act of 1913 changed this by introducing the possibility of permanent segregation. 113 The new Act did provoke concerns about liberty. An early draft made provision for the involuntary committal of defectives, that 'they should be deprived of the opportunity of procreating children'.…”

A systematic review of graduate training on cultural competence

“…The mental health care field, alongside countless other fields and disciplines, have failed to actively resist these oppressive philosophies and instead have allowed them to permeate and persist (Constantine, 2007;Tasca et al, 2012;Tievsky, 1988). Consequently, across a number of instances, diagnoses and treatment have been disenfranchising through the advancement of discriminatory theories (e.g., Morton's theory of craniometry, idea of "feeble-mindedness"; Allen, 1984;Radford, 1991). Moreover, research in the field of mental health has been grounded in ideas of homophobia, white supremacy, and misogyny (Hall, 2014).…”

Racialization and Reproduction: Asian Immigrants and California’s Twentieth-Century Eugenic Sterilization Program

“…Intersectionality Theory and the Gendered Racism Model ( Crenshaw 2018 ; Espiritu 1997 ; Liu and Wong 2018 ) best explain our results, wherein Asian women and men experienced unique but related discrimination within California’s eugenic sterilization program. Institutionalization ( Radford 1991 ), deportation ( Stern 2016 ), and exploitative labor practices ( Espiritu 1997 ; Price, Darity Jr., and Sharpe 2020 ; Shah 2011 ) as potential forms of eugenically motivated discrimination may have manifested more strongly for Asian-born men than for women, whereas similar eugenic motivations may have manifested as a greater disproportionality in sterilization rates for Asian-born women over a longer period. Our results indicating Asian-born men only had higher sterilization rates than the US-born men “in group” for part of the study period are perhaps less surprising in this context.…”

An historical geography of liberty: Lancashire and the Inebriates Acts

“…The passage of the Mental Deficiency Act of 1913 changed this by introducing the possibility of permanent segregation. 113 The new Act did provoke concerns about liberty. An early draft made provision for the involuntary committal of defectives, that 'they should be deprived of the opportunity of procreating children'.…”

A systematic review of graduate training on cultural competence

“…The mental health care field, alongside countless other fields and disciplines, have failed to actively resist these oppressive philosophies and instead have allowed them to permeate and persist (Constantine, 2007;Tasca et al, 2012;Tievsky, 1988). Consequently, across a number of instances, diagnoses and treatment have been disenfranchising through the advancement of discriminatory theories (e.g., Morton's theory of craniometry, idea of "feeble-mindedness"; Allen, 1984;Radford, 1991). Moreover, research in the field of mental health has been grounded in ideas of homophobia, white supremacy, and misogyny (Hall, 2014).…”