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Better for all the world : the secret history of forced sterilization and America's quest for racial purity / Harry Bruinius.
Van Pelt Library HQ755.5.U5 B78 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bruinius, Harry.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Eugenics--United States--History.
- Eugenics.
- Involuntary sterilization.
- History.
- United States.
- Involuntary sterilization--United States--History.
- Racism--United States--History.
- Racism.
- Physical Description:
- 401 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Knopf, 2006.
- Summary:
- Drawing on personal letters, diaries, and documents never before used, Bruinius relates the little-known history of eugenics in America--a movement that began in the early 20th century and resulted in forced sterilization of more than 65,000 Americans. 32 illustrations.
- Contents:
- I Prologue: A Simple and Painless Procedure 3
- II An Epic Quest in the Modern World 9
- Book 2 Three Generations of Imbeciles
- III The Purity of Our Women 23
- IV A Forgotten Gravestone 50
- Book 3 The Sins of the Fathers
- V Hottentots in Kantsaywhere 81
- VI A City Upon a Hill 108
- VII The Hideous Serpent of Hopelessly Vicious Protoplasm 138
- VIII But, Oh, Alas for Youthful Pride 154
- IX Oh, the Bliss of Being a Mother! 174
- X Citizens of the Wrong Type 189
- XI Catechisms Old and New 217
- XII The Making of a Master Race 243
- XIII Neighborly Love and Beyond 271
- XIV Harry's Secret 287
- Book 4 Generations Lost
- XV The Palace of Justice 307
- XVI "What They Did to Me Was Sexual Murder" 322
- XVII Epilogue: The Apex of Civilization 357.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (page [369-386]) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0375413715
- OCLC:
- 58919869
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