Fender, Stephen (2006) Poor whites and the Federal Writers' Project: the rhetoric of eugenics in the Southern Life Histories. In: Currell, Susan and Cogdell, Christina (eds.) Popular eugenics: national efficiency and American mass culture in 1930s. University of Ohio Press, Athens, Ohio. ISBN 082141691X

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Abstract

Examines in detail the Federal Writers' Project Life Histories of the southern country poor in the 1930s, showing how they were influenced by the lingering rhetoric of eugenics, despite the progressive sympathies of managers and writers.

Item Type:	Book Section
Depositing User:	EPrints Services
Date Deposited:	21 Feb 2012 09:58
Last Modified:	25 Sep 2012 07:17
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/37314

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