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Item Details
| Title:
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ADMIT ONE
AN AMERICAN SCRAPBOOK |
| By: |
Martha Collins |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£16.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0822964058 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780822964056 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
30 January, 1990 |
| Series: |
Pitt Poetry Series |
| Pages: |
96 |
| Description: |
In this collection poetry, Martha Collins relentlessly traces the history of scientific racism from the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair through the eugenics movement of the 1920s. |
| Synopsis: |
Fitter Families Yea, I have a goodly heritage my mother said her sister said the Bible said and it does and they did we do but that was also the motto of Fitter Families for Future Firesides, contests featured at state fairs using anthropometric measurements medical dental vision exams intelligence tests personality evaluations of families some with several generations as well as eugenic family histories. The forms had a blank for race (which could be Nordic) and charts were posted with literacy rates for NATIVE-BORN FOREIGN-BORN NEGROES as well as birth rates for NATIVE-BORN ALIEN There were also displays with flashing lights |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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