Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia by Elizabeth Catte

Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia

Elizabeth Catte

6 hours, 18 minutes first pub 2021 (editions) user-added

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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 Virg...

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