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Date: March 23rd | Time: 12 - 1:30 pm | Location: Admin 306
Please note that this will be an in-person event.
Special thanks to our co-sponsors: Staff and Faculty of Color Association, Department of Sociology, Department of Public Health, UC Merced Black Alliance, Prison Reform and Incarceration Abolishment Club
Jennifer James is an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Health and Aging and the Bioethics Program at UCSF. She is a sociologist and Black feminist scholar whose research lies at the intersection of race, gender and health. Dr. James is a qualitative researcher whose work centers the lived experiences of those often left at the margins of research and biomedicine. Her research is informed by her background in social work and policy. Her current research is focused on the ways the corrections system intersects with the healthcare system and how health inequalities may be produced and reproduced for women facing serious and chronic illnesses. She is a current Greenwall Faculty Scholar and is conducting community based research on the forced sterilizations that occurred in California’s women’s prisons.
In this talk, Dr. James will briefly trace the history of family and reproductive control in the US and highlight the role mass incarceration plays in this eugenic legacy. She will describe the forced sterilizations that occurred inside California prisons and contextualize the atrocity of those procedures within the larger landscape of reproductive oppression and abuse occurring daily in prisons and jails.
