Eugenic Nation

by Stern, Alexandra Minna

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  DISSERTATIONS AND THESES

  Biller, Robert William. “Defending the Last Frontier: Eugenic Thought and Action in the State of California, 1890–1941.” M.A. thesis, Simon Fraser University, 1993.

  Gutiérrez, Elena Rebéca. “The Racial Politics of Reproduction: The Social Construction of Mexican-Origin Women’s Fertility.” Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan, 1999.

  Hernández, Kelly Anne Lytle. “Entangling Bodies and Borders: Racial Profiling and the U.S. Border Patrol, 1924–1955.” Ph.D. diss., University of California, Los Angeles, 2002.

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  UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS

  Frank, Dana. “Imperialism and Big Basin Redwoods State Park.” In Local Girl Makes History. Manuscript cited with the permission of the author.

  McCann, Carole R. “Birth Control, Eugenics, and the Foundations of Demography.” University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Manuscript cited with the permission of the author.

  Koreck, María Teresa. “Space, Power, and Imperial Remappings of the Mexican North, 1730–
1840.” University of Chicago. Manuscript cited with the permission of the author.

  ADDITIONAL ORAL HISTORY INTERVIEWS

  Interview of Mary Conway Kohler, Nov. 22, 1983. Interviewer: Gail Hornstein. Cited with the permission of the interviewer.

  Interview of Art Torres, Nov. 17, 2003, San Francisco, Calif., conducted by the author.

  FILMS

  The Border, directed by Tony Richardson, 1982, 107 mins.

  ELECTRONIC RESOURCES

  Center for Genetics and Society. “Assessment of the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Act.” Sept. 15, 2004 (revised Sept. 22, 2004). Available at: http://www.genetics-and-society.org/policies/california/assessment.html.

  Welles, Dede. “Mary Conway Kohler.” Women’s Legal History, 1997. Available at: http://www.stanford.edu/group/WLHP/papers/kohler.html.

  The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation. Available at: http://www.haynesfoundation.org

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  Index

  The index that appeared in the print version of this title was intentionally removed from the eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below

  ABA. See American Breeders’ Association

  abortion

  Acosta, Guadalupe

  African Americans

  diseases associated with

  footprints

  Goethe vs.

  intermarriage laws

  IQ

  Jim Crow segregation

  Los Angeles exclusions

  PPIE

  protest issues of (1960s–1970s)

  racial uplift and righteous propagation

  school segregation

  stereotypes of biological inferiority