Declared Defective
Title | Declared Defective PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Jarvenpa |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | 246 |
Release | 2018-05 |
Genre | HISTORY |
ISBN | 1496206606 |
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 upstate New York, the biologists were repulsed by the poverty and behavior of the people in Nam Hollow. They claimed that their alleged indolence, feeble-mindedness, licentiousness, alcoholism, and criminality were biologically inherited. Declared Defective reveals that Nam Hollow was actually a community of marginalized, mixed-race Native Americans, the Van Guilders, adapting to scarce resources during an era of tumultuous political and economic change. Their Mohican ancestors had lost lands and been displaced from the frontiers of colonial expansion in western Massachusetts in the late eighteenth century. Estabrook and Davenport’s portrait of innate degeneracy was a grotesque mischaracterization based on class prejudice and ignorance of the history and hybridic subculture of the people of Guilder Hollow. By bringing historical experience, agency, and cultural process to the forefront of analysis, Declared Defective illuminates the real lives and struggles of the Mohican Van Guilders. It also exposes the pseudoscientific zealotry and fearmongering of Progressive Era eugenics while exploring the contradictions of race and class in America.
The Kentucky Law Reporter
Title | The Kentucky Law Reporter PDF eBook |
Author | John Cleland Wells |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1420 |
Release | 1905 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of the State of North Dakota
Title | Reports of Cases Decided in the Supreme Court of the State of North Dakota PDF eBook |
Author | North Dakota. Supreme Court |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 836 |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | Court rules |
ISBN |
The Northeastern Reporter
Title | The Northeastern Reporter PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1156 |
Release | 1894 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN |
Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Massachusetts, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and Court of Appeals of New York; May/July 1891-Mar./Apr. 1936, Appellate Court of Indiana; Dec. 1926/Feb. 1927-Mar./Apr. 1936, Courts of Appeals of Ohio.
Southern Reporter
Title | Southern Reporter PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 1048 |
Release | 1890 |
Genre | Law reports, digests, etc |
ISBN |
Includes the decisions of the Supreme Courts of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, and Mississippi, the Appellate Courts of Alabama and, Sept. 1928/Jan. 1929-Jan./Mar. 1941, the Courts of Appeal of Louisiana.
The Southern Reporter
Title | The Southern Reporter PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 962 |
Release | 1890 |
Genre | Law reports, digests, etc |
ISBN |
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon ... and Cases in the Circuit Courts of Oregon
Title | Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of Oregon ... and Cases in the Circuit Courts of Oregon PDF eBook |
Author | Oregon. Supreme Court |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 600 |
Release | 1888 |
Genre | Law reports, digests, etc |
ISBN |