"Sterilized in the Name of Public Health"
1. In 1909, California passed the third sterilization bill in the nation, granting the medical superintendents of asylums and prisons the authority to asexualize a patient or inmate if it improved their physical, mental, or moral condition.
-What kinds of characteristics did inmates have in order for them to be a target for this surgery or treatment?
2. According to the leaflet, what were some of the effects of the eugenic sterilization?
3. Into the 1950s, how did California describe compulsory sterilization?
4. In the survey African Americans and Mexicans were operated on at rates that exceeded their populations. Mexican men and Mexican women comprised 7% of the 8% percent sterilized. Why do you think Mexicans comprised such a high number of those sterilized?
1. Why do you believe that Latinos were left out of/skeptical about the HIV/AIDS movement? What was ACT-UP's response?
2. Do you believe that the "recycling" effort that ACT-UP used and other organizations use today is dysfunctional? Why or why not?
3. What was the CHA and what was it's purpose?
4. What were the three goals of ACT-UP Treatment in Developing countries Symposium?
1. In 1909, California passed the third sterilization bill in the nation, granting the medical superintendents of asylums and prisons the authority to asexualize a patient or inmate if it improved their physical, mental, or moral condition.
-What kinds of characteristics did inmates have in order for them to be a target for this surgery or treatment?
2. According to the leaflet, what were some of the effects of the eugenic sterilization?
3. Into the 1950s, how did California describe compulsory sterilization?
4. In the survey African Americans and Mexicans were operated on at rates that exceeded their populations. Mexican men and Mexican women comprised 7% of the 8% percent sterilized. Why do you think Mexicans comprised such a high number of those sterilized?
"Latinos ACT UP: Transnational AIDS Activism in the 1990s"
1. Why do you believe that Latinos were left out of/skeptical about the HIV/AIDS movement? What was ACT-UP's response?
2. Do you believe that the "recycling" effort that ACT-UP used and other organizations use today is dysfunctional? Why or why not?
3. What was the CHA and what was it's purpose?
4. What were the three goals of ACT-UP Treatment in Developing countries Symposium?
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