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Sterilized by the State Eugenics, Race, and the Population Scare in Twentieth-Century North America

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ISBN-10: 1107659701

ISBN-13: 9781107659704

Edition: 2013

Authors: Desmond King, Randall Hansen

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This book is the first comprehensive analysis of eugenics in North America focused on the second half of the twentieth century. Based on new research, Randall Hansen and Desmond King show why eugenic sterilization policies persisted after the 1940s in the United States and Canada. Through extensive archival research, King and Hansen show how both superintendents at homes for the "feebleminded" and pro-sterilization advocates repositioned themselves after 1945 to avoid the taint of Nazi eugenics. Drawing on interviews with victims of sterilization and primary documents, this book traces the post-1940s development of eugenic policy and shows that both eugenic arguments and committed…    
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Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/26/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 309
Size: 6.02" wide x 9.02" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Desmond King is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of American Government, and Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford University.

Randall Hansen is Director of the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies and a Chair in Politics at the University of Toronto. He was a Commonwealth Scholar at Nuffield College, a Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church, and a Tutorial Fellow at Merton College Oxford, where he ran the PPE school. He has held visiting fellowships at UCLA, the Institute for Political Science (Sciences Po), Paris, the Humboldt University, Berlin and Trinity College, Dublin. His last book, The Fire and Fury: The Allied Bombing of Germany, 1942-5 was published in 2008 to great acclaim and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award. He has given public lectures throughout Europe and…