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020			_a9780226364339 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
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050	0	4	_aJV6485 _b.D444 2016
049			_aMAIN
100	1		_aBaynton, Douglas C., _e1
245	1	0	_aDefectives in the land : _bdisability and immigration in the age of eugenics / _cDouglas C. Baynton.
260			_aChicago ; _aLondon : _bThe University of Chicago Press, _c(c)2016.
300			_a1 online resource (177 pages)
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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520	0		_a"Immigration history has largely focused on the restriction of immigrants by race and ethnicity, overlooking disability as a crucial factor in the crafting of the image of the "undesirable immigrant." Defectives in the Land, Douglas C. Baynton's groundbreaking new look at immigration and disability, aims to change this. 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."-- Publisher's description.
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505	0	0	_aDefective -- _tHandicapped -- _tDependent -- _tUgly.
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650		0	_aImmigrants _xMedical examinations _zUnited States.
650		0	_aEugenics _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aPeople with disabilities _xLegal status, laws, etc. _zUnited States.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1180812&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell