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Brown Doggy Pictures
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Between 1933 and 1974, North Carolina ran one of the most aggressive eugenics programs in the world, sterilizing more than 7,600 men, women and children. One-by- one, they gathered the "unfit" -- the poor, the undesirables -- and took them aside. They began with the mothers and their daughters, sterilizing both parent and child to "protect" from unplanned pregnancies. They then continued with the girls and boys, surgically altering the children's...
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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The sequel to Eutopia is "a nailbiter . . that is spooky as hell, a critical and sharp demolition of Lovecraft's own romanticization of eugenics" (Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing ). In Eutopia , an orphaned farm boy and a black physician came face to face with monsters both human -- American eugenicists -- and inhuman -- a parasite called the Juke. Volk is "another dive into the horrific . . a dazzling horror novel that's unafraid to ask questions and...
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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G. K. Chesterton's highly influential treatise on one of the most controversial topics of the early twentieth century When G. K. Chesterton first published Eugenics and Other Evils in 1922, he seemed to be the lone voice of reason against the fashionable concept of selectively breeding a population for "desirable" traits. Though later generations came to associate eugenics with the horrors of the Third Reich, worldwide support for the philosophy was...
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Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Examines eugenics in the early-twentieth-century U.S., describing the Supreme Court case "Buck v. Bell," which legalized forced sterilization, and discussing the forces behind and extent of the practice--more than sixty-five thousand people throughout the country were sterilized--and the influence of American racial theories on the Nazis.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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The basis for the blockbuster motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island by New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane is a gripping and atmospheric psychological thriller where nothing is quite what it seems. The New York Times calls Shutter Island, “Startlingly original.” The Washington Post raves, “Brilliantly conceived
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Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Homo Sapiens 1900 is a stunning exploration of the history of eugenics, race hygiene and the quest to improve the human race.Emerging at the turn of the century, eugenic movements spawned government sanctioned research projects, whose stated goals were the improvement of the human species through biological means - including selective breeding, sterilization, and the elimination of all 'degenerate' members of society. Unearthing startling archival...
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Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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This debut horror novel by the author of acclaimed short story collection Monstrous Affections "establishes him as a worthy heir to the mantle of Stephen King" ( National Post ). Set in 1911, Eutopia "mixes utopian vision, rustic Americana, and pure creepiness. . Nickle blends Little House on the Prairie with distillates of Rosemary's Baby and The X-Files to create a chilling survival-of-the-fittest story" ( Publishers Weekly ). Situated on the edge...
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English
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"Unforgettable, this a powerful debut to savor." - Kim Michele Richardson, New York Times bestselling author of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
A searing book club novel for fans of Where the Crawdad's Sing and The Girls in the Stilt House following one girl fighting for her family, her body, and her right to create a future all her own
Some folks will do anything to control the wild spirit of a Carolina girl...
For fourteen-year-old Leah...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Nazi Medicine: In the Shadow of the Reich studies the step-by-step process that led the German medical profession down an unethical road to genocide. It graphically documents the racial theories and eugenics principles that set the stage for the doctors' participation in sterilization and euthanasia, the selections at the death camps, as well as inhuman and unethical human experimentation. The Cross and the Star finds disheartening echoes of anti-Semitism...
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English
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"Winner of the 2017 Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Prize, History of Economics Society" "Finalist for the 2017 Hayek Prize, The Manhattan Institute" "One of Bloomberg View's Great History Books of 2016" Thomas C. Leonard is research scholar in the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University, where he is also lecturer in the Department of Economics.
The pivotal and troubling role of progressive-era economics in the shaping of modern American...
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Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
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Discusses the growing popularity of eugenics in the U.S. in the 1920s and 1930s during which legislation was passed in many states allowing for the sterilization of men and women deemed genetically inclined toward criminality or feeble-mindedness, and provides an account of the legal battle that ensued when inmates at Oklahoma's McAlester prison organized to fight the practice, putting together a test case that went all the way to the Supreme Court....
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