Segregation's science eugenics and society in Virginia /

Main Author: Dorr, Gregory Michael, 1965-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008.
Series:Carter G. Woodson Institute series
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10495632
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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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