{"product_id":"declared-defective-native-americans-eugenics-and-the-myth-of-nam-hollow-hardback-9781496202000","title":"Declared Defective; Native Americans, Eugenics, and the Myth of Nam Hollow (Hardback) 9781496202000","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDeclared Defective\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNative Americans, Eugenics, and the Myth of Nam Hollow\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRobert Jarvenpa (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496202000\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 May 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e258 pages, 9 photographs, 1 illustration, 3 maps, 2 tables, 8 charts, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDeclared Defective\u003c\/i\u003e will be of interest to scholars of Native North America, the Progressive Era, the history of science, and race and ethnicity.\"-MikaËla M. Adams, \u003ci\u003eJournal of American Ethnic History\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“A well-researched, fast-paced, compact, and gracefully written examination of Progressive Era eugenics and the complex origins, historical development, and significance of a mixed-race, outcast community. \u003ci\u003eDeclared Defective\u003c\/i\u003e is an important contribution to the history of anthropology, science, racial thought, and Native Americans.”-John David Smith, Charles H. Stone Distinguished Professor of American History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“This powerful story of colonial dispossession, race relations, and rural impoverishment is as relevant as ever in a world where once again many are inclined to naturalize socioeconomic inequality.”-Paul Nadasdy, associate professor of anthropology at Cornell University\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDeclared Defective \u003c\/i\u003ewill contribute considerably to histories and discussions of race in America, which is normally geared to a conversation around issues of black and white-literally and metaphorically. Connecting the colonial past with the scientific racism of the twentieth century is a unique contribution.”-Brenda Macdougall, chair of MÉtis research and associate professor of geography, environment, and geomatics at the University of Ottawa  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eDeclared Defective\u003c\/i\u003e is the anthropological history of an outcaste community and a critical reevaluation of \u003ci\u003eThe Nam Family\u003c\/i\u003e, written in 1912 by Arthur Estabrook and Charles Davenport, leaders of the early twentieth-century eugenics movement. Based on their investigations of an obscure rural enclave in upstate New York, the biologists were repulsed by the poverty and behavior of the people in Nam Hollow. They claimed that their alleged indolence, feeble-mindedness, licentiousness, alcoholism, and criminality were biologically inherited.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeclared Defective\u003c\/i\u003e reveals that Nam Hollow was actually a community of marginalized, mixed-race Native Americans, the Van Guilders, adapting to scarce resources during an era of tumultuous political and economic change. Their Mohican ancestors had lost lands and been displaced from the frontiers of colonial expansion in western Massachusetts in the late eighteenth century. Estabrook and Davenport’s portrait of innate degeneracy was a grotesque mischaracterization based on class prejudice and ignorance of the history and hybridic subculture of the people of Guilder Hollow. By bringing historical experience, agency, and cultural process to the forefront of analysis, \u003ci\u003eDeclared Defective\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the real lives and struggles of the Mohican Van Guilders. It also exposes the pseudoscientific zealotry and fearmongering of Progressive Era eugenics while exploring the contradictions of race and class in America.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e List of Tables\u003cbr\u003e Series Editors’\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: The Menace in the Hollow\u003cbr\u003e 1. Native Americans and Eugenics\u003cbr\u003e 2. Border Wars and the Origins of the Van Guilders\u003cbr\u003e 3. A “\u003cbr\u003eNew”\u003cbr\u003e Homeland and the Cradle of Guilder Hollow\u003cbr\u003e 4. From Pioneers to Outcastes\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Eugenicists Arrive\u003cbr\u003e 6. Deconstructing the Nam and the Hidden Native Americans\u003cbr\u003e 7. Demonizing the Marginalized Poor\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: The Myth Unravels\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52599880843544,"sku":"9781496202000","price":38.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/declared-defective-native-americans-eugenics-and-the-myth-of-nam-hollow-hardback-9781496202000","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}