You are correct!! I was surprised to learn that California, a state
dominated by the Catholic Church, would allow forced sterilizations.
Anita
>From: Edward DuBois Ragan <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
> <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: SLAVE OWNERSHIP BY NATIVE AMERICANS IN VIRGINIA
>Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:17:24 -0500
>
>Anita,
>
>Only California involuntarily sterilized more women than Virginia.
>
>Here's a short reading list.
>
>Harry Bruinius, _Better for all the World: the Secret History of Forced
>Sterilization and America's Quest for Racial Purity_ (New York: Knopf,
>2006).
>
>J. David Smith, _The Eugenic Assault on America: Scenes in Red, White, and
>Black_ (Fairfax: George Mason University Press, 1993).
>
>J. David Smith, _The Sterilization of Carrie Buck_ (Far Hills, NJ: New
>Horizon Press, 1989).
>
>Walter Ashby Plecker, _The New Family and Racial Improvement_ (Richmond:
>Bureau of Vital Statistics, State Dept. of Health, 1928).
>
>Gregory Michael Dorr, “Segregation's Science: The American Eugenics
>Movement and Virginia, 1900-1980” (Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia,
>2000).
>
>As for Plecker's admiration for Goebbels' final solution, Plecker once
>bragged in a letter to John Collier, the U.S. Commissioner of Indian
>Affairs, that "[y]our staff member is probably correct in his surmise that
>Hitler’s genealogical study of the Jews is not more complete.” (Plecker to
>Collier, April 6, 1943)
>
>Best,
>Ed
>
>
>Edward DuBois Ragan, Ph.D
>Lecturer in Virginia History
>Department of History
>Old Dominion University
>Norfolk, VA 23529-0091
>Tel. 757-683-3949
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>
>
>On Feb 19, 2007, at 5:55 PM, Anita Wills wrote:
>
>>I read somewhere that Plecker was part of the Eugenics movement. Was
>>Virginia not one of the states that was sterilizing people of so-called
>>low intelligence?
>>
>>Anita
>>
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