+RACE AND REPRODUCTION IN US HISTORY

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Explores co-constitutive histories of race, gender, and reproduction in the United States. Examines how ideas about bodies shaped social categories (race, sex, gender, nation) through processes including settler colonialism, slavery, and racial capitalism and systems and institutions including law, medicine, public health, and child welfare policy. Considers individual and collective efforts to navigate, challenge, and change oppressive systems and practices affecting sexual and reproductive lives.