Unnatural selections [electronic resource] : eugenics in American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance / Daylanne K. English.
Publication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.Description: xii, 267 p. : illISBN:- 0807828688 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0807855316 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0807863521
- African Americans in literature
- African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
- American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism
- American literature -- White authors -- History and criticism
- American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Eugenics in literature
- Harlem Renaissance
- Modernism (Literature) -- United States
- Race in literature
- 810.9/3556 22
- PS228.E84 E54 2004eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-260) and index.
W.E.B. Du Bois's family crisis -- T.S. Eliot's strange gods : celibacy, hierarchy, and tradition -- The making and delivering of Americans in Gertrude Stein's early writings, 1903-1925 -- Blessed are the barren : lynching, reproduction, and the drama of new Negro womanhood, 1916-1930 -- New white women the U.S. eugenic family studies field workers, 1910-1918.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.