Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia With threads of self-awareness

With threads of self-awareness

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Consisting of three novellas (Wakefulness

Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia With threads of self-awarenessLonglisted for the 2022 PEN America John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, a riveting and tightly argued history of eugenics and its ripple effects, by acclaimed historian Elizabeth Catte. 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