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    Syphilis and Forced Sterilization: Righteous Anger and teaching adult BA classrooms about the legacies of an intersectional, institutional racism and sexism

    I recently brought up the idea of righteous anger (bell hooks, among others) in the context of talking about the forced sterilization of women in Central America, in the South, of Puerto Ricans and Nicaraguans, of African and Native American women, especially during the rise of the eugenics period and Jim Crow and scientific racism, to a class of entering students at the small private B.A-finishing university where I teach. the students were shocked! And I keep rolling back what I assume they might know, or at least some of them might know. So I have to do a little background research .. but here is a recent article that describes a new development in the legal treatment of these cases:

    http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/03/15/guatemala.syphilis.lawsuit/

    • 22 March 2011
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