Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics by Jess Whatcott

Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics

Jess Whatcott

248 pages first pub 2024 (editions)

nonfiction history lgbtqia+
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In Menace to the Future, 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 f...

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