Segregation's science [electronic resource] : eugenics and society in Virginia / Gregory Michael Dorr.
Series: Carter G. Woodson Institute seriesPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008.Description: xi, 297 p. : illISBN:- 9780813927558 (alk. paper)
- 0813927552 (alk. paper)
- 9780813930343 (e-book)
- 363.9/209755 22
- HQ755.5.U5 D67 2008eb
eBooks
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".
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.