Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia by Elizabeth Catte
English | February 2nd, 2021 | ISBN: 194874273X | 176 pages | True EPUB | 0.53 MB
Between 1927 and 1979, more than 8,000 people were involuntarily sterilized in five hospitals across the state of Virginia. From this plain and terrible fact springs Elizabeth Catte's Pure America, a sweeping, unsparing history of eugenics in Virginia, and by extension the United States. Virginia's twentieth-century eugenics program was not the misguided initiative of well-meaning men of the day, writes Catte, with clarity and ferocity.