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Unnatural selections : eugenics in American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance

Title
Unnatural selections : eugenics in American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance / Daylanne K. English.
Author
English, Daylanne K.
Publication
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.

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Description
xii, 267 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • American literature > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Eugenics in literature
  • American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
  • American literature > White authors > History and criticism
  • Modernism (Literature) > United States
  • African Americans in literature
  • Harlem Renaissance
  • Race in literature
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-260) and index.
Contents
W.E.B. Du Bois's family crisis -- T.S. Eliot's strange gods : celibacy, hierarchy, and tradition -- The making and delivering of Americans in Gertrude Stein's early writings, 1903-1925 -- Blessed are the barren : lynching, reproduction, and the drama of new Negro womanhood, 1916-1930 -- New white women : the U.S. eugenic family studies field workers, 1910-1918.
Call Number
Sc E 04-978
ISBN
  • 0807828688 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0807855316 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2003021778
OCLC
53253733
Author
English, Daylanne K.
Title
Unnatural selections : eugenics in American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance / Daylanne K. English.
Imprint
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-260) and index.
Research Call Number
Sc E 04-978
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