Segregation's science : eugenics and society in Virginia / Gregory Michael Dorr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dorr, Gregory Michael, 1965-

Series:

Carter G. Woodson Institute series.

Carter G. Woodson Institute series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eugenics--Virginia--History.

Eugenics.

Eugenics--Study and teaching--Social aspects--Virginia--History.

Virginia--Race relations--History.

Virginia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

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".

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613585752

9781280490521

1280490527

9780813930343

0813930340

OCLC:

820756209