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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Buck v. Bell"”.
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Eugenic Sterilization in 20Th Century Georgia: From Progressive Utilitarianism to Individual Rights
… throughout the United States after the 1927 Buck v. Bell Supreme Court decision that gave judicial approval to involuntary sterilization, regardless of due process and equal protection arguments to the contrary. It was in this legal environment that Georgia adopted sterilization legislation …
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LINES THAT BIND: DISABILITY’S PLACE IN THE MODERNIST WRITINGS OF WILLIAM FAULKNER, AMY LOWELL, LANGSTON HUGHES, AND EZRA POUND
… Family and the U.S. Supreme court case of Buck v. Bell. Chapter two’s analysis of Langston Hughes's Fine Clothes to the Jew identifies a tendency in the poetry to enact Tobin Sieber’s concept of disability masquerade to assume but play against the intellectually disabled identity forced on …
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The Eugenic Origins of Indiana's Muscatatuck Colony: 1920-2005
This thesis examines the widely unknown history and origins of Muscatatuck Colony, located in Butlerville, Indiana. The national eugenics movement impacted the United States politically, medically, legally, and socially. While the United States established mental institutions prior to the eugenics …