Fertile Matters: The Politics of Mexican-Origin Women's Reproduction

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notes chapter one 1. Trial transcript, 828, Madrigal v. Quilligan (C.D. Cal., 7 June 1978) (No. CV-75-2057-EC). Trial transcript and other case pleadings are available in the Carlos Vélez-Ibañez Sterilization Archives, Chicano Studies Library, University of California, Los Angeles (hereafter referred to as Vélez Archives). 2. The first line of the complaint reads, “This is a suit against State officials and others acting under color of state law to redress the violation of the plaintiffs’ constitutional right to procreate and their constitutional right to due process of law.” Plaintiffs’ First Amended Complaint, Madrigal v. Quilligan (C.D. Cal., 25 November 1975) (No. CV-75-2057-EC), p. 1, Vélez Archives. 3. Plaintiffs’ Proposed Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, Madrigal v. Quilligan (C.D. Cal., 22 June 1978) (No. CV-75-2057-EC), Vélez Archives. 4. Antonia Hernández, Charles Nabarette, and Karen Benker each reported to me that several other staff members corroborated Dr. Benker’s story. Although willing to speak “off the record,” they feared retribution and the permanent loss of a job in medicine if they were involved in the case. Hernández, Nabarette, and Benker interviews. 5. National Council of La Raza (nclr), Beyond the Census. 6. U.S. Bureau of the Census, Census 2000 Redistricting Data. 7. U.S. Bureau of the Census, March 2002 Current Population Survey. 8. National Center for Health Statistics, Births of Hispanic Origin, 1989–1995. 9. For example, see Melissa Healy, “Latina Teens Defy Decline in Birth Rates,” Los Angeles Times, 13 February 1998, sec. A, p. 1. 10. “Family Disunification,” National Review, 9 March 1998, p. 20. 11. Daniel P. Moynihan’s 1965 report is infamous as a classic example of victimblaming . See Moynihan, “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action.” See also Baca Zinn, “Family, Feminism, and Race in America,” for commentary on the significance of Moynihan’s report and a critique of the deficiency model upon which it is proposed. See also Briggs, “I Like to Be in America,” chap. 6 of Reproducing Empire. T4292.indb 129 T4292.indb 129 7/27/07 7:22:58 AM 7/27/07 7:22:58 AM 12. See Briggs, Reproducing Empire; Gutiérrez, “We Will No Longer be Silent or Invisible.” 13. López, “Agency and Constraint.” 14. López, “An Ethnography,” 243. 15. Perea, Immigrants Out! For a succinct but thorough review of nativism in the United States, see Feagin, “Old Poison in New Bottles.” 16. “Immigrant Bashing: Beware Statistics Bearing Bias,” Arizona Republic, 3 November 1993, sec. B, p. 6. 17. See Lindsley, “The Gendered Assault on Immigrants”; Wilson, “AntiImmigrant Sentiment and the Problem of Reproduction/Maintenance in Mexican Immigration to the United States”; and Inda, “Biopower, Reproduction, and the Migrant Women’s Body.” See also Chávez, “Immigration Reform and Nativism,” for his argument that Proposition 187 targeted “reproduction while ignoring production ” as a means of deterring the maintenance of family systems yet continuing the exploitation of immigrant labor. This tactic, Chávez explains, accounts for the proposition’s goal of halting services that would specifically impact the health, education , and well-being of immigrant women and their children. 18. Hondaganeu-Sotelo, “Unpacking 187.” 19. Montejano, “On the Future of Anglo-Mexican Relations in the United States.” See also Perea, Immigrants Out! for various analyses of anti-immigrant sentiment , organizing for English-only legislation, and other forms that these xenophobic postures have taken. 20. Hanson, Mexifornia, xii. 21. Ibid., 10–11. 22. Huntington, Who Are We? 23. Chang, “Undocumented Latinas”; Hondaganeu-Sotelo, “Women and Children First” and “Unpacking 187”; and Chávez, “Immigration Reform and Nativism.” 24. Irving, Immigrant Mothers, 3. 25. Spector and Kitsuse, Constructing Social Problems; Gusfield, The Culture of Public Problems; Nathanson, Dangerous Passage. 26. Spector and Kitsuse, Constructing Social Problems. 27. Goode and Ben-Yehuda, “Moral Panics.” 28. Gusfield, The Culture of Public Problems, 8. 29. Andrade, “Social Science Stereotypes of Mexican American Women,” 238. 30. I provide further analysis of sociological research on Mexican-origin women’s fertility in chapter 4. 31. Ginsburg and Rapp, “The Politics of Reproduction,” 332. Ann Anagost similarly notes that “population is first and foremost a discursive category” (“A Surfeit of Bodies,” 39). 32. Purvis and Hunt, “Discourse, Ideology,” 497. 33. Omi and Winant, Racial Formation in the United States. notes to pages 3–8 130 T4292.indb 130 T4292.indb 130 7/27/07 7:22:59 AM 7/27/07 7:22...