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BL
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| Record Number
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598860
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GBA8C1934b428079
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| Main Entry
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Dorr, Gregory Michael,1965-
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| Title & Author
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Segregation's science : : eugenics and society in Virginia /\ Gregory Michael Dorr
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| Series Statement
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Carter G. Woodson Institute series
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| Page. NO
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xi, 297 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9780813927558
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: 0813927552
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-288) and index
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| Contents
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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"
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Eugenics-- Virginia-- History
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Eugenics-- Study and teaching-- Social aspects-- Virginia-- History
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Eugenics-- history-- Virginia
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Virginia, Race relations, History
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| Dewey Classification
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363.9/209755
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| LC Classification
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HQ755.5.U5D67 2008
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