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02596aam a2200385 i 4500 001 775D52BE6AA411EB90829B3829ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210209010015 008 200207t20212021ohu b 000 0 eng d 020 $a 194874273X 020 $a 9781948742733 035 $a (OCoLC)1139238041 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d DAD $d OCLCO $d IHY $d CLE $d IOU $d SILO 050 4 $a HQ755.5.U5 $b C38 2021 082 04 $a 363.9755 $2 23 100 1 $a Catte, Elizabeth, $e author. 245 10 $a Pure America : $b eugenics and the making of Modern Virginia / $c Elizabeth Catte. 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a Cleveland, Ohio : $b Belt Publishing, $c 2021. 300 $a 199 pages ; $c 20 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a 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. 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? 650 0 $a Eugenics $z Virginia $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Involuntary sterilization $z Virginia $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Race relations $y 20th century. 650 0 $a White supremacy movements $z Virginia $y 20th century. 941 $a 6 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010023821.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220526015753.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210804012130.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20210504014051.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20210304015109.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210209010138.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=775D52BE6AA411EB90829B3829ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search