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Imbeciles

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by Adam Cohen


  Trend of the Race, The (Holmes), 54

  Tribe, Laurence, 11

  Tribe of Ishmael, The (McCulloch), 50, 156

  Trinkle, Elbert Lee, 86, 90, 210

  unions, immignation and, 127

  United Methodist Church, 60–61

  United States v. Ju Toy, 237

  United States v. Schwimmer, 316

  universities, eugenics and, 4, 53–54, 112

  University of Virginia, 18–19, 71–73, 172, 174–75

  “Upon the Formation of a Deaf Variety of the Human Race” (Bell), 111

  urbanization, increase in, 4, 44, 55

  U.S. Census Bureau, 122

  “Utility and Futility of Punishment for Crime in Virginia, The” (Strode), 306–7

  vaccination:

  as analogy for sterilization, 205, 208, 257, 274–75

  eugenics movement’s disapproval of, 48

  Van Devanter, Willis, 263, 264, 277

  Van Wagenen, Bleecker, 52, 117

  vasectomy, 65

  See also sterilization

  Vaughn v. Ruoff, 318

  venereal disease, 190

  “Village of a Thousand Souls, The” (Gesell), 54

  Vineland Training School for Feeble-minded Girls and Boys, 31, 52

  Virginia:

  Albemarle County history, 17–18

  apology for sterilizations, 1

  delay of sterilizations during Buck v. Bell, 6, 89, 90, 161, 178, 210–11, 305

  early mental health policy in, 38–39

  eugenics movement in, 71–77

  institutionalization laws, 84–85

  post–Buck v. Bell sterilizations, 301–2

  post–World War II sterilizations, 319

  sterilization law (1916), 80–83, 84, 161, 176

  sterilization law (1924), 86–90, 100, 161, 177–78, 266, 272, 304–5

  Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feeble-Minded:

  and Buck v. Priddy, 98

  Carrie Buck’s institutionalization in, 6, 27–30, 167

  and Carrie Buck’s sterilization hearing, 93–97

  Emma Buck’s institutionalization in, 22–23

  farming at, 29, 41, 42

  history of, 40–44

  parole system, 284

  Priddy as superintendent of, 7–8, 36, 41, 42–43

  and Strode, 175–76

  Virginia Law Review, 200–201, 305

  Virginia State Epileptic Colony, 41–43

  Virginia sterilization law campaign:

  and Carrington’s bill (1909), 75, 85, 89, 177

  DeJarnette’s role in, 75–77, 80, 81, 84, 85, 86, 90, 146

  Drewry’s role in, 79–80

  medical profession support for, 8, 74

  Priddy’s idealized account of, 146

  and Virginia sterilization law (1916), 80–83, 84, 161, 176

  Virginia Supreme Court appeal, 203–10

  briefs, 203–6, 275

  decision, 207–8

  malfeasance in, 207, 208–10

  voices of reason:

  and criminal anthropology, 49, 50, 155, 157, 193

  on immigration, 132–33

  and immigration restrictions, 132–34

  on intelligence testing, 31, 33, 198, 253, 256, 267

  on natural selection, 48, 323

  on societal privileging of power, 323

  and sterilization, 67–69, 84, 91, 101, 137–38

  voting rights, 167–68, 173, 233–35

  vulnerable groups. See societal privileging of power

  Wagener, Otto, 302

  Wallin, J. E. Wallace, 33, 198

  Ward, Harry F., 60

  Washington and Lee University, 163

  Welch, William, 111

  Weld, Samuel, 228

  West, Jesse, 207

  West End Presbyterian Church (New York), 56

  Western Lunatic Asylum (Western State Hospital), 39, 40, 76, 169

  Whitehead, Irving:

  Buck v. Bell brief, 254–56

  and Carrie Buck testimony decision, 197

  cross-examination by, 183–85, 186–87, 189–90, 193, 195–96, 204

  malfeasance overview, 209

  and Special Board of Directors meeting, 208–9

  and Strode, 98, 178

  support for sterilization, 98–99

  Virginia Supreme Court appeal brief, 203–4

  white supremacy. See racism

  “Whose Country Is This?” (Coolidge), 134

  Wigmore, John, 242, 264

  Wilhelm, Caroline:

  Buck v. Priddy testimony of, 185–87, 268, 270

  and Carrie Buck’s institutionalization, 27, 28–29

  and Estabrook’s Buck v. Priddy testimony, 180

  and Laughlin’s Buck v. Priddy testimony, 150

  and Laughlin’s investigation, 147

  William, Albert Edward, 3

  Williams, J. F., 23

  Williams, Roger, 216

  Wilson, Edmund, 223

  Wilson, Woodrow, 100, 259

  Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 105

  women as targets of eugenics movement, 25–26, 81, 301

  and “differential fecundity,” 73–74, 92, 117, 188

  See also sexual behavior

  women’s rights, 174–75

  Wood, Eula, 184

  World War I, 239, 243–44, 245, 247

  World War II, 314, 317

  Wyzanski, Charles, 212

  Yankee from Olympus (Bowen), 213

  Yerkes, Robert, 34

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