“<i>Menace to the Future</i> clearly and accessibly shows that institutionalization is (racialized and gendered/queered) disablement, detention is eugenics, and reproductive justice and abolition are key to liberation. Constructing an original anti-eugenic archive, Jess Whatcott provides an indispensable intersectional analysis of carceral eugenics that cannot be unthought once read. To truly understand why reproductive justice means abolishing confinement and/as carceral eugenics (as Whatcott calls segregation based on biological traits), you need this book in your activist and scholarly toolbox.” - Liat Ben-Moshe, author of (Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition) “In this illuminating and incisive book, Jess Whatcott makes sophisticated and potent arguments about eugenics and carcerality, showing how the early twentieth-century institutionalization of people was just as much eugenics as it was sterilization and other forms of biopolitical control. This outstanding book, sustained by a lush combination of archival research and critical analysis, is a welcome and searing addition to scholarship on eugenics, the carceral state, reproductive justice, and disability capitalism.” - Alexandra Minna Stern, author of (Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right is Warping the American Imagination)