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020			_a9781948742733 _q(hbk.)
020			_a194874273X _q(hbk.)
035			_a(OCoLC)1139238041 _z(OCoLC)1238018420
092			_a363.9755 _bC368
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aCatte, Elizabeth, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aPure America : _beugenics and the making of Modern Virginia / _cElizabeth Catte.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aCleveland, Ohio : _bBelt Publishing, _c2021.
264		4	_c©2021
300			_a199 pages ; _c20 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_aBetween 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. It was a manifestation of white supremacy. It was a form of employment insurance. It was a means of controlling "troublesome" women and a philosophy that helped remove poor people from valuable land. It was cruel and it was wrong, and yet today sites where it was practiced like Western State Hospital, in Staunton, VA, are rehabilitated as luxury housing, their histories hushed up in the service of capital. As was amply evidenced by her acclaimed 2018 book What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia, Catte has no room for excuses; no patience for equivocation. What does it mean for modern America, she asks here, that such buildings are given the second chance that 8,000 citizens never got? And what possible interventions can be made now, repair their damage?
505	0		_aA note on language and content -- Introduction -- Mothers and daughters -- Mongrel Virginians -- Healing landscapes -- The patient is good for work, and work is good for the patient.
650		0	_aEugenics _zVirginia _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aInvoluntary sterilization _zVirginia _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aRace relations _y20th century.
650		0	_aWhite supremacy movements _zVirginia _y20th century.
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