02803nam 2200625 450 991079824240332120230808192017.00-8229-8129-7(CKB)3710000000613238(EBL)4525851(SSID)ssj0001634098(PQKBManifestationID)16385434(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001634098(PQKBWorkID)14949134(PQKB)10119342(MiAaPQ)EBC4525851(MdBmJHUP)muse50984(OCoLC)944403044(Au-PeEL)EBL4525851(CaPaEBR)ebr11221908(CaONFJC)MIL907191(EXLCZ)99371000000061323820160628h20162016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrAdmit one an American scrapbook /Martha CollinsPittsburgh, Pennsylvania :University of Pittsburgh Press,2016.℗20161 online resource (100 p.)Pitt Poetry SeriesPoems.0-8229-6405-8 Intro; Contents; Fair; Zoo; Fitter; Fewer; Postscript; AcknowledgmentsIn Admit One: An American Scrapbook, Martha Collins relentlessly traces the history of scientific racism from the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair through the eugenics movement of the 1920's. Using a wide variety of documentary sources, including her Illinois grandfather's newspaper, Collins constructs a "scrapbook" of fragments, quotations, narrative passages, and lyrical riffs that reveal startling connections between the Fair, the Bronx Zoo, and ideas that culminated in anti-immigration, anti-miscegenation, and eugenic sterilization laws in 1924. Among the book's recurring elements are evolving portraits of the "exhibited" African Ota Benga, the sterilization victim Carrie Buck, and the eugenicist Madison Grant, whose reach extended to Nazi Germany. Following the practice begun in her book-length poem Blue Front and continued in her exploration of race in White Papers, Collins combines careful research with innovative poetic techniques to create an arresting account of a segment of American history that haunts us even today. Admit One: An American Scrapbook is a brilliant, troubling, necessary read.Pitt poetry series.RacismPoetryEugenicsPoetryEugenicsRacismRacismEugenicsEugenics.Racism.305.8Collins Martha1175130MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910798242403321Admit one3813429UNINA