Declared Defective : Native Americans, Eugenics, and the Myth of Nam Hollow

Name: Declared Defective : Native Americans, Eugenics, and the Myth of Nam Hollow
Brand: University of Nebraska Press

University of Nebraska Press

Declared Defective is the anthropological history of an outcast community and a critical reevaluation of The Nam Family, written in 1912 by Arthur Estabrook and Charles Davenport, leaders of the early twentieth-century eugenics movement. Based on their investigations of an obscure rural enclave in upstate New York, the biologists were repulsed by the poverty and behavior of the people in Nam Hollow. They claimed that their alleged indolence, feeble-mindedness, licentiousness, alcoholism, and criminality were biologically inherited.\nDeclared Defective reveals that Nam Hollow was actually a community of marginalized, mixed-race Native Americans, the Van Guilders, adapting to scarce resources during an era of tumultuous political and economic change. Their Mohican ancestors had lost lands and\n\nDeclared Defective\nNative Americans, Eugenics, and the Myth of Nam Hollow\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked ser;