附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-322) and index.
Introduction -- Race betterment and tropical medicine in imperial San Francisco -- Quarantine and eugenic gatekeeping on the U.S-Mexico border -- Instituting eugenics in California -- California's eugenic landscapes -- Centering eugenics on the family -- Contesting hereditarianism.
摘要:Many 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 medicine.
