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Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia

Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia

Catte, Elizabeth

Hardcover

21st Century United States HistoryGeneral World HistoryRegional: South

Publisher Price: $26.00

ISBN10: 194874273X
ISBN13: 9781948742733
Publisher: Belt Publishing
Published: Feb 2 2021
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.70
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.40
Language: English

A well-told, richly contextualized investigation of an appalling episode in American history (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).

Between 1927 and 1979, more than 8,000 people were involuntarily sterilized in five hospitals across the state of Virginia. From this plain and terrible fact springs Elizabeth Catte's Pure America, a sweeping, unsparing history of eugenics in Virginia, and by extension the United States. Virginia's eugenics program was not the misguided initiative of well-meaning men of the day, writes Catte, it was a manifestation of white supremacy. It was a form of employment insurance. It was a means of controlling troublesome women and a philosophy that helped remove poor people from valuable land. It was cruel and it was wrong. As was amply evidenced by her acclaimed 2018 book What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia, Catte has no room for excuses; no patience for equivocation. What does it mean for modern America, she asks here, that such buildings are given the second chance that 8,000 citizens never got?

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