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English, Daylanne K.

Title Unnatural selections : eugenics in American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance / Daylanne K. English.

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Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2004.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 2nd Floor Stacks	810.93556 En36 2004	---	Axe Inventory 2024

Description	xii, 267 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography	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.
Note	Includes photographs from the Kansas Free Fair.
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.
	African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
	Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
	African Americans in literature.
	Harlem Renaissance.
	Race in literature.
ISBN	0807855316 (pbk. : alk. paper)
	0807828688 (cloth : alk. paper)