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Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"The author tells the history of the eugenic sterilization case Buck v. Bell argued before the US Supreme Court in 1927. This updated edition has a new afterword that identifies how the Buck story remains relevant today"--
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"From Pulitzer Prize finalist Daniel Okrent, the definitive and timely account of a forgotten dark chapter of American history. The Guarded Gate tells the story of the scientists who provided the intellectual justification for the harshest immigration law in American history and the men who turned their 'science' into politics. Brandished by the upper-class Bostonians and New Yorkers--many of them progressives--who led the anti-immigration movement,...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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ln 1927, the Supreme Court handed down a ruling so disturbing, ignorant, and cruel that it stands as one of the great injustices in American history. Here, Adam Cohen exposes the court's decision to allow the sterilization of a young woman it wrongly thought to be "feebleminded" and to champion the mass eugenic sterilization of undesirables for the greater good of the country. The 8-1 ruling was signed by some of the most revered figures in American...
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