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Laddar... Admit One: An American Scrapbook (Pitt Poetry Series)av Martha Collins
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Admit One is a chilling collection on the state of race and eugenics in the US. Found materials from Collins' grandfather's newspaper and quotes weave a damning look at history, a history of scientific endeavor motivated by white supremacy that informed policies of Nazi Germany. Perhaps, what is most disturbing is how much the rhetoric of Madison Grant and others is so current. The fear of the dominant culture still so palpable, invoking a tribalism that incites violence and death. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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In Admit One: An American Scrapbook, Martha Collins relentlessly traces the history of scientific racism from the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair through the eugenics movement of the 1920's. Using a wide variety of documentary sources, including her Illinois grandfather's newspaper, Collins constructs a "scrapbook" of fragments, quotations, narrative passages, and lyrical riffs that reveal startling connections between the Fair, the Bronx Zoo, and ideas that culminated in anti-immigration, anti-miscegenation, and eugenic sterilization laws in 1924. Among the book's recurring elements are evolving portraits of the "exhibited" African Ota Benga, the sterilization victim Carrie Buck, and the eugenicist Madison Grant, whose reach extended to Nazi Germany. Following the practice begun in her book-length poem Blue Front and continued in her exploration of race in White Papers, Collins combines careful research with innovative poetic techniques to create an arresting account of a segment of American history that haunts us even today. Admit One: An American Scrapbook is a brilliant, troubling, necessary read. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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