When California Sterilized 20,000 of Its Citizens | Essay | Zócalo Public Square
Our dataset reveals that those sterilized in state institutions often
were young women pronounced promiscuous; the sons and daughters of
Mexican, Italian, and Japanese immigrants, frequently with parents too
destitute to care for them; and men and women who transgressed sexual
norms. Preliminary statistical analysis demonstrates that during the
peak decade of operations from 1935 to 1944 Spanish-surnamed patients
were 3.5 times more likely to be sterilized than patients in the general
institutional population.
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