Declared defective : Native Americans, eugenics, and the myth of Nam Hollow /

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Declared 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jarvenpa, Robert (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, 2018.
Series:Critical studies in the history of anthropology.
Subjects:
Indians of North America > New York (State)
Racially mixed people > New York (State)
Eugenics.
Eugenics
Peuples autochtones > New York (État)
Eugénisme.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > Native American Studies.
Indians of North America
Racially mixed people
New York (State)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Series Editors' Introduction; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Native Americans and Eugenics; 2. Border Wars and the Origins of the Van Guilders; 3. A "New" Homeland and the Cradle of Guilder Hollow; 4. From Pioneers to Outcastes; 5. The Eugenicists Arrive; 6. Deconstructing the Nam and the Hidden Native Americans; 7. Demonizing the Marginalized Poor; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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