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Defectives in the Land: Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics
Douglas C. Baynton
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 273 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
415g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226364162
SKU
V9780226364162
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About Douglas C. Baynton
Douglas C. Baynton is professor of history at the University of Iowa, where he also teaches courses in the American Sign Language program. He is the author of Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language, also published by the University of Chicago Press. He lives in Iowa.
Reviews for Defectives in the Land: Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics
Baynton, challenging the conventional historiography, argues that the selective phase of American immigration policy, despite its heavy reliance on the -sensible-sounding 'public charge' standard, was no less discriminatory. During those years, he demonstrates, immigration officials could and did customarily invoke this standard to rule out such 'defectives' as women unaccompanied by male providers and members of races with supposed 'predispositions' ... Read more