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 >[log in to unmask] > > >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 >> > >To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions >at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html _________________________________________________________________ With tax season right around the corner, make sure to follow these few simple tips. http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Taxes/PreparationTips/PreparationTips.aspx?icid=HMFebtagline To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html