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Segregation's Science : Eugenics and Society in Virginia.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Carter G. Woodson Institute SeriesPublisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2008Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (314 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813930343
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Segregation's ScienceDDC classification:
  • 363.9/209755
LOC classification:
  • HQ755.5.U5 -- D67 2008eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: "You Are Your Brother's Keeper! -- 1 "The Sacrifice of a Race": Virginia's Proto-eugenicists Survey Humanity -- 2 "Rearing the Human Thoroughbred": Progressive Era Eugenics in Virginia -- 3 "Defending the Thin Red Line": Academics and Eugenics -- 4 "Sterilize the Misfits Promptly": Virginia Controls the Feebleminded -- 5 "Mongrel Virginians": Eugenics and the "Race Question -- 6 "A Healthier and Happier America": Persistent Eugenics in Virginia -- 7 "They Saw Black All Over": Eugenics, Massive Resistance, and Punitive Sterilization -- CONCLUSION: "I Never Knew What They'd Done with Me -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Summary: Of interest to historians, educators, biologists, physicians, and social workers, this study reminds readers that science is socially constructed; the syllogism "Science is objective; objective things are moral; therefore science is moralremains as potentially dangerous and misleading today as it was in the past.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION: "You Are Your Brother's Keeper! -- 1 "The Sacrifice of a Race": Virginia's Proto-eugenicists Survey Humanity -- 2 "Rearing the Human Thoroughbred": Progressive Era Eugenics in Virginia -- 3 "Defending the Thin Red Line": Academics and Eugenics -- 4 "Sterilize the Misfits Promptly": Virginia Controls the Feebleminded -- 5 "Mongrel Virginians": Eugenics and the "Race Question -- 6 "A Healthier and Happier America": Persistent Eugenics in Virginia -- 7 "They Saw Black All Over": Eugenics, Massive Resistance, and Punitive Sterilization -- CONCLUSION: "I Never Knew What They'd Done with Me -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

Of interest to historians, educators, biologists, physicians, and social workers, this study reminds readers that science is socially constructed; the syllogism "Science is objective; objective things are moral; therefore science is moralremains as potentially dangerous and misleading today as it was in the past.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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