Histories of racism and reproductive freedom at the US-Mexico border. With Dr Lina-Maria Murillo

Cuerpa Politica

Dr Lina-Maria Murillo is an Assistant Professor in the Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies and History Department at the University of Iowa. Her work focuses on the intersections of reproductive freedom, race, gender, class, and sexuality, as well as immigration and Latinx subjectivities. She is currently completing her manuscript titled Fighting for Control: Reproductive Care, Race, and Power in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. In this episode, we discuss her research into the twentieth century history of the birth control movement in El Paso, how the threat of ‘Mexicanization’ of Texas was articulated, and the role of eugenic feminism in birth control at the borderland.