The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance

By Karma Chavez Author Interviews, HIV/AIDS

The Borders of AIDS tells a story about how powerful people used AIDS as an opportunity to enact bans and quarantines and how ordinary people resisted.

Interrogating Our White Supremacist Present: A Roundtable on Global Histories of Racial Supremacy and Reproductive Control – Part 2

By Lina-Maria Murillo Race and Ethnicity

Part 2 of a roundtable on what global histories of racial supremacy and reproductive control can tell us about our white supremacist present

Interrogating Our White Supremacist Present: A Roundtable on Global Histories of Racial Supremacy and Reproductive Control – Part 1

By Lina-Maria Murillo Race and Ethnicity

What can global histories of racial supremacy and reproductive control tell us about our white supremacist present?

In the Service of White Supremacy: Immigration and Reproductive Violence

By Lina-Maria Murillo 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body, Race and Ethnicity

Reproductive control and violence have been a hallmark of immigration policy in the United States for over a century.

Queering Immigration in the Age of Trump: A Roundtable on Boutilier v. INS

By Marc Stein 20th and 21st Century United States

On its 50th anniversary, a roundtable on what Boutilier v. INS can teach us about our present and queering immigration

The Cologne Sexual Assaults in Historical Perspective

By Michelle Lynn Kahn Modern Europe, Sexual Violence

The language of xenophobia and nationalism has long been staged on women’s bodies.

Heterosexuality and Americanization: "Social Education" for Immigrant Youth in the 1920s

By Erica Ryan Childhood and Youth

An “American Style” marriage, reformers believed, was one solution to the problem of unassimilated immigrants.