Unnatural Selections: Eugenics in American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance

by Daylanne K. English

Book Overview

Challenging conventional constructions of the Harlem Renaissance and American modernism, Daylanne English links writers from both movements to debates about eugenics in the Progressive Era. She argues that, in the 1920s, the form and content of writings by figures as disparate as W. E. B. Du Bois, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, and Nella Larsen were shaped by anxieties regarding immigration, migration, and intraracial breeding.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807855316
• ISBN13: 9780807855317
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"