Segregation's science eugenics and society in Virginia /
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2008.
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| Schriftenreihe: | Carter G. Woodson Institute series.
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction : you are your brother's keeper!
- "The sacrifice of a race" : Virginia's proto-eugenicists survey humanity
- "Rearing the human thoroughbred" : progressive era eugenics in Virginia
- "Defending the thin red line" : academics and eugenics
- "Sterilize the misfits promptly" : Virginia controls the feebleminded
- "Mongrel Virginians" : eugenics and the "race question"
- "A healthier and happier America" : persistent eugenics in Virginia
- "They saw black all over" : eugenics, massive resistance, and punitive sterilization
- Conclusion : "I never knew what they'd done with me".