Segregation's science

Segregation's science: eugenics and society in Virginia

by Dorr, Gregory Michael

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"Blending social, intellectual, legal, medical, gender, and cultural history, Segregation's Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia examines how eugenic theory and practice bolstered Virginia's various cultures of segregation - rich from poor, sick from well, able from disabled, male from female, and black and Native American from white. Of interest to historians, educators, biologists, physicians, and social workers, this study reminds readers that science is socially constructed"--Provided …

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  • Full title :Segregation's science : eugenics and society in Virginia / Gregory Michael Dorr.

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"Blending social, intellectual, legal, medical, gender, and cultural history, Segregation's Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia examines how eugenic theory and practice bolstered Virginia's various cultures of segregation - rich from poor, sick from well, able from disabled, male from female, and black and Native American from white. Of interest to historians, educators, biologists, physicians, and social workers, this study reminds readers that science is socially constructed"--Provided by publisher.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2008.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xi, 297 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780813930343, 0813930340, 1280490527, 9781280490521, 9786613585752, 6613585750
  • oclc:ocn820756209
  • LC Classification:HQ755.5.U5
  • Dewey Decimal:363.9/209755

Table of Contents

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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Subjects

Eugenics Eugenics -- history Eugenics -- History. -- Virginia Eugenics -- Study and teaching -- Virgi… Eugenik Eugénisme -- Étude et enseignement -- V… Eugénisme -- Histoire. -- Virginie History HISTORY -- 20th Century. -- United Stat… Race relations Rassentrennung Virginia Virginia -- Race relations Virginie -- Relations raciales

Writers

Dorr, Gregory Michael

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