Eugenic Nation Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America

Name: Eugenic Nation Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America
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ISBN: 9780520244443

ISBN-10: 0520244443

ISBN-13: 9780520244443

Edition: 2005

Authors: Alexandra Minna Stern

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Many people assume that eugenics all but disappeared with the fall of Nazism, but as this sweeping history demonstrates, the idea of better breeding had a wide and surprising reach in the United States throughout the twentieth century. With an original emphasis on the American West,Eugenic Nationbrings to light many little-known facts--for example, that one-third of the involuntary sterilizations in this country occurred in California between 1909 and 1979--as it explores the influence of eugenics on phenomena as varied as race-based intelligence tests, school segregation, tropical medicine, the Border Patrol, and the environmental movement. Eugenic Nationbegins in the 1900s, when…

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List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/8/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 346
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Introduction



Race Betterment and Tropical Medicine in Imperial San Francisco



Quarantine and Eugenic Gatekeeping on the U.S.-Mexican Border



Instituting Eugenics in California



California's Eugenic Landscapes



Centering Eugenics on the Family



Contesting Hereditarianism: Reassessing the 1960s


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography