Defectives in the Land: Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics
Language: English
Published by University of Chicago Press, 2016
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- Title
- Defectives in the Land: Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics
- Author
- Baynton, Douglas C.
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication year
- 2016
- Condition
- Very good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 022636416X
- ISBN 13
- 9780226364162
- Item weight
- 408 grams
- Dimensions
- 16.26 centimeters width by 23.37 centimeters height by 1.78 centimeters depth
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Baynton explains, immigration restriction in the United States was primarily intended to keep people with disabilities―known as “defectives”―out of the country. The list of those included is long: the deaf, blind, epileptic, and mobility impaired; people with curved spines, hernias, flat or club feet, missing limbs, and short limbs; those unusually short or tall; people with intellectual or psychiatric disabilities; intersexuals; men of “poor physique” and men diagnosed with “feminism.” Not only were disabled individuals excluded, but particular races and nationalities were also identified as undesirable based on their supposed susceptibility to mental, moral, and physical defects.
In this transformative book, Baynton argues that early immigration laws were a cohesive whole―a decades-long effort to find an effective method of excluding people considered to be defective. This effort was one aspect of a national culture that was increasingly fixated on competition and efficiency, anxious about physical appearance and difference, and haunted by a fear of hereditary defect and the degeneration of the American race.
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