TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dorr,Gregory Michael
TI  - Segregation's Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia
T2  - Carter G. Woodson Institute Series
SN  - 9780813930343
AV  - HQ755.5.U5 -- D67 2008eb 
U1  - 363.9/209755 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Charlottesville
PB  - University of Virginia Press
KW  - Eugenics -- Virginia -- History
KW  - Eugenics -- Study and teaching -- Social aspects -- Virginia -- History
KW  - Virginia -- Race relations -- History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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