Segregation's science [electronic resource] : eugenics and society in Virginia / Gregory Michael Dorr.
By: Dorr, Gregory Michael.
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BookSeries: Carter G. Woodson Institute series: Publisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008Description: xi, 297 p. : ill.Subject(s): Eugenics -- Virginia -- History | Eugenics -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects -- Virginia -- History | Virginia -- Race relations -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 363.9/209755 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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".
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