Tuesday, March 11, 2025 12pm
About this Event
385 East 8th Street, Claremont, CA
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/eugenics-us-mexico-border-historyIsidro González, post-doctoral fellow and visiting professor of history at CMC, shares highlights of his research which explores histories and legacies of eugenic practices, methods, and data in the 20th-century U.S. Southwest. Specifically, he looks at the roles of social workers, science, and the state in race-making through disability, disabled subjects, and disability experts at sites of confinement and exclusion, such as institutions for people deemed “feebleminded” at the Mexico-U.S. border. One of his current projects delves into the history of behavioral interventions and how racialized subjects experienced them in the post-World War II era.