In Search of Purity
Subtitle: Popular Eugenics and Racial Uplift among New Negroes 1915-1935
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-08-31
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9781537422978
Description: Examines the reinterpretation of eugenic theories by Black scholars, who helped integrate the science into a social movement for racial uplift. Areas of analyses include links between ideas about social degeneracy and physical hygiene, eugenics courses and professors at Howard University, hereditarian, and colorism.