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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.
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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  810.93556 En36 2004    ---  Available
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)

 
    
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