The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance

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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

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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

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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 20th and 21st Century United States, Medicine and the Body, Race and Ethnicity 0 comments

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

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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

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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

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