Daisy Deomampo is Professor of Anthropology at Fordham University. She is the author of Transnational Reproduction: Race, Kinship, and Commercial Surrogacy in India.

"In this singular, path-breaking account, Deomampo honors the voices of women who are paid for their "Asian eggs," while offering incisive critiques of the neo-eugenic logics, market-based inequities, and health risks of this practice. Essential reading for anthropologists and sociologists of reproduction, as well as scholars in Asian American studies and critical race theory." - Marcia C. Inhorn, author of Motherhood on Ice: The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs "A pathbreaking and timely work. It centers Asian American women's experiences in the US egg donation industry to expose how racial capitalism reshapes the intimacy of human reproduction into a racialized market. Deomampo's incisive framework 'reproductive racial capitalism' offers a powerful new lens that unmasks how family-making through assisted reproductive technologies drives racial stratification and eugenic hierarchies. Ultimately, Deomampo invites us to imagine family differently— unbounded by racial categories or biological conceptions of race." - Dána-Ain Davis, author of Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth"The extraction and sale of human eggs have become a global industry, with close to a million babies born as a result. Yet, when these eggs, like items on a menu, come to be commercially catalogued and priced, systemic inequalities and forms of discrimination are reinforced in embodied ways. In Conceiving Asian Babies, Daisy Deomampo provides us with a much-needed critical analysis of how capitalism differently (de-)values human biological materials in racialized ways. Weaving through ethnographically rich chapters, Deomampo insists on the need to imagine and act otherwise." - Ayo Wahlberg, author of Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China

Daisy Deomampo is Professor of Anthropology at Fordham University. She is the author of Transnational Reproduction: Race, Kinship, and Commercial Surrogacy in India.

"In this singular, path-breaking account, Deomampo honors the voices of women who are paid for their "Asian eggs," while offering incisive critiques of the neo-eugenic logics, market-based inequities, and health risks of this practice. Essential reading for anthropologists and sociologists of reproduction, as well as scholars in Asian American studies and critical race theory." - Marcia C. Inhorn, author of Motherhood on Ice: The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs "A pathbreaking and timely work. It centers Asian American women's experiences in the US egg donation industry to expose how racial capitalism reshapes the intimacy of human reproduction into a racialized market. Deomampo's incisive framework 'reproductive racial capitalism' offers a powerful new lens that unmasks how family-making through assisted reproductive technologies drives racial stratification and eugenic hierarchies. Ultimately, Deomampo invites us to imagine family differently— unbounded by racial categories or biological conceptions of race." - Dána-Ain Davis, author of Reproductive Injustice: Racism, Pregnancy, and Premature Birth"The extraction and sale of human eggs have become a global industry, with close to a million babies born as a result. Yet, when these eggs, like items on a menu, come to be commercially catalogued and priced, systemic inequalities and forms of discrimination are reinforced in embodied ways. In Conceiving Asian Babies, Daisy Deomampo provides us with a much-needed critical analysis of how capitalism differently (de-)values human biological materials in racialized ways. Weaving through ethnographically rich chapters, Deomampo insists on the need to imagine and act otherwise." - Ayo Wahlberg, author of Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China