Defectives in the Land: Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics

by Douglas C. Baynton

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022675863X
• ISBN13: 9780226758633
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"