LEADER 03379nam 2200517 450 001 9910467777803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4962-0660-6 010 $a1-4962-0658-4 035 $a(CKB)4340000000261744 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5326730 035 $a(OCoLC)1029352667 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse65939 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5326730 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11533144 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000261744 100 $a20180520d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDeclared defective $eNative Americans, eugenics, and the myth of Nam Hollow /$fRobert Jarvenpa 210 1$aLincoln ;$aLondon :$cUniversity of Nebraska Press,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 238 pages) $cillustrations, maps 225 1 $aCritical studies in the history of anthropology 311 $a1-4962-0200-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 205-221) and index. 327 $aNative Americans and eugenics -- Border wars and the origins of the Van Guilders -- A "new" homeland and the cradle of Guilder Hollow -- From pioneers to outcastes -- The eugenicists arrive -- Deconstructing the Nam and the hidden Native Americans -- Demonizing the marginalized poor. 330 $aDeclared Defective is the anthropological history of an outcaste community and a critical reevaluation of The Nam Family, written in 1912 by Arthur Estabrook and Charles Davenport, leaders of the early twentieth-century eugenics movement. Based on their investigations of an obscure rural enclave in upstate New York, the biologists were repulsed by the poverty and behavior of the people in Nam Hollow. They claimed that their alleged indolence, feeble-mindedness, licentiousness, alcoholism, and criminality were biologically inherited. Declared Defective reveals that Nam Hollow was actually a community of marginalized, mixed-race Native Americans, the Van Guilders, adapting to scarce resources during an era of tumultuous political and economic change. Their Mohican ancestors had lost lands and been displaced from the frontiers of colonial expansion in western Massachusetts in the late eighteenth century. Estabrook and Davenport's portrait of innate degeneracy was a grotesque mischaracterization based on class prejudice and ignorance of the history and hybridic subculture of the people of Guilder Hollow. By bringing historical experience, agency, and cultural process to the forefront of analysis, Declared Defective illuminates the real lives and struggles of the Mohican Van Guilders. It also exposes the pseudoscientific zealotry and fearmongering of Progressive Era eugenics while exploring the contradictions of race and class in America. 410 0$aCritical studies in the history of anthropology. 606 $aIndians of North America$zNew York (State) 606 $aRacially mixed people$zNew York (State) 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aIndians of North America 615 0$aRacially mixed people 676 $a362.89470747 700 $aJarvenpa$b Robert$0943025 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910467777803321 996 $aDeclared defective$92128084 997 $aUNINA