{"id":784,"date":"2016-10-10T13:55:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T20:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/?p=784"},"modified":"2016-10-10T13:55:32","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T20:55:32","slug":"virgina-espino-and-renee-tajima-pena-collection-of-sterilization-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/classes\/dh101f16\/2016\/10\/10\/virgina-espino-and-renee-tajima-pena-collection-of-sterilization-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgina Espino and Renee Tajima-Pena Collection of Sterilization Records"},"content":{"rendered":"

The finding aid for the Virgina Espino and Renee Tajima-Pena Collection of Sterilization Records<\/a> articulates the events surrounding Madrigal v. Quilligan, a 1970s federal class action lawsuit brought to court by ten Latina women suing E.J. Quilligan, M.D. and his colleagues for the coerced sterilization of Latina women at the LA County University of Southern California Medical Center. The case was lost, but in the momentum of the civil rights movements, it increased public awareness and activism against the forced sterilization to minority women.<\/p>\n

The project is divided into two main record types: court documents from 1975-1979, and oral history recordings from 1994-2001 in the form of 10 cassette tape interviews of those involved in the Latina rights movement, those who supported their case, and a resident at the hospital where and when the women were admitted and coerced into sterilization. The court documents are each described with a Box number, Folder number, date, title and content note, the associated content of these descriptors likely only able to parse together the skeleton of what it meant to be the plaintiffs in this court case. That is, while these documents do work to fill out much of the court case narrative and how it may have given voice to many of the issues at the center of the Latina women\u2019s movement, it cannot capture the psychological effects that the case or the events it addresses had on its subjects then and over time. That the judge ruled against the Latina women would alone suggest that content in the court case records is going to be filtered through a biased, racist lens.<\/p>\n

The interviews had in the tape cassettes, and in documentaries like No M\u00e1s Beb\u00e9s<\/a>, which, according to the finding aid, sourced many of the records in this collection can\u00a0help begin to fill in the missing perspectives and counteract the skewed narratives in this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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