#partial abstract

Tonight I will use my blog to give a little insight into how my research design is going. I will use this platform as a means to exhibit my abstract as that is the easiest and shortest part that will not require a lengthy post that everyone will gloss over.

The scholars with whom I will be in conversation with have determined that the mass sterilization of black women during the late twentieth century relied heavily on the fact that this structural violence was grounded in AFDC welfare policies. Many of the scholars who have focused their research on this topic agree that marginalized women --specifically black in this case-- were sterilized as a result of trying to offset the birthrate and some families dependent on the welfare system. What is missing in this conversation is the historicization of black women’s lack of body autonomy and what that historical context brings to the table regarding this part of the discussion. What is also missing from the conversation is the notion that while coerced sterilization grounded in economics and capitalism and how that functioned as a governing factor for the nation. The primary sources I intend to use will mainly be pulled from newspapers as well as scholarly journals. I also plan to conduct at least three interviews to understand the perspectives of women who lived during the time period I am researching. Two articles will inform the manner in which I form my paper, and they will be the governing bodies for the flow of my research...