Segregation's science : eugenics and society in Virginia / Gregory Michael Dorr.

Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2008.

xi, 297 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-288) and index.

Introduction : you are your brother's keeper! -- "The sacrifice of a race" : Virginia's proto-eugenicists survey humanity -- "Rearing the human thoroughbred" : progressive era eugenics in Virginia -- "Defending the thin red line" : academics and eugenics -- "Sterilize the misfits promptly" : Virginia controls the feebleminded -- "Mongrel Virginians" : eugenics and the "race question" -- "A healthier and happier America" : persistent eugenics in Virginia -- "They saw black all over" : eugenics, massive resistance, and punitive sterilization -- Conclusion : "I never knew what they'd done with me".