Segregation's science eugenics and society in Virginia / [electronic resource] :
Gregory Michael Dorr.
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008.
- xi, 297 p. : ill.
- Carter G. Woodson Institute series .
- Carter G. Woodson Institute series. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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".
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Eugenics--History.--Virginia Eugenics--Study and teaching--Social aspects--History.--Virginia