Blending social, intellectual, legal, medical, gender, and cultural history, Segregation\'s Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia examines how eugenic theory and practice bolstered Virginia\'s various cultures of segregation--rich from poor, sick from well, able from disabled, male from female, and black from white and Native American.
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Famously articulated by Thomas Jefferson, ideas about biological inequalities among groups evolved throughout the nineteenth century.
Blending social, intellectual, legal, medical, gender, and cultural history, Segregation\'s Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia examines how eugenic theory and practice bolstered Virginia\'s various cultures of segregation--rich from poor, sick from well, able from disabled, male from female, and black from white and Native American