Review of Jess Whatcott’s Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics (2024)

Authors

  • Maverick Smith

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v14i4.1304

Abstract

In the prologue to this book, Whatcott explains that during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, her existing involvement in prison solidarity work began to incorporate the issue of immigration detention which they connect to eugenics. In this book, Whatcott argues that connecting eugenics to carcel systems produces a new, relevant angle about eugenics as an ideology.

Author Biography

Maverick Smith

Ph.D. Candidate, Critical Disability Studies, Faculty of Health, York University

Published

2025-12-16

How to Cite

Smith, M. (2025). Review of Jess Whatcott’s Menace to the Future: A Disability and Queer History of Carceral Eugenics (2024). Canadian Journal of Disability Studies, 14(4), 271–277. https://doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v14i4.1304

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Section

Reviews