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200 10$aEugenic nation$b[electronic resource] $efaults and frontiers of better breeding in modern America /$fAlexandra Minna Stern
210   $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$dc2005
215   $a1 online resource (362 p.)
225 1 $aAmerican crossroads ;$v17
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aContents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Race Betterment and Tropical Medicine in Imperial San Francisco; 2. Quarantine and Eugenic Gatekeeping on the U.S.-Mexican Border; 3. Instituting Eugenics in California; 4. California's Eugenic Landscapes; 5. Centering Eugenics on the Family; 6. Contesting Hereditarianism: Reassessing the 1960's; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index
330   $aMany people assume that eugenics all but disappeared with the fall of Nazism, but as this sweeping history demonstrates, the idea of better breeding had a wide and surprising reach in the United States throughout the twentieth century. With an original emphasis on the American West, Eugenic Nation brings to light many little-known facts-for example, that one-third of the involuntary sterilizations in this country occurred in California between 1909 and 1979-as it explores the influence of eugenics on phenomena as varied as race-based intelligence tests, school segregation, tropical
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