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Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia - A Discussion with Author Dr. Elizabeth Catte Community Event Tuesday, April 27, 2021 - 7:00pm to 8:30pm
Between 1927 and 1979, more than 8,000 people were involuntarily sterilized in five hospitals across the state of Virginia. From this plain and terrible fact springs Elizabeth Catte’s Pure America, a sweeping, unsparing history of eugenics in Virginia, and by extension the United States.
Join us as we invite Dr. Elizabeth Catte, author of What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia , to discuss her new book Pure America and the legacy of the eugenics movement in the American South and beyond.
The Christian Science Monitor:
In high school, one of author Jess Zimmerman’s Internet usernames was Medusa. A self-described mythology nerd, her childhood copy of “D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths” was well-worn. But as she recalls in her scorching collection of essays, “Women and Other Monsters: Building a New Mythology,” she particularly identified with the snake-haired creature whose power originated in ugliness: The mere sight of Medusa could turn a man to stone. As a teenager who was profoundly insecure about her looks, Zimmerman writes that calling herself Medusa was “an attempt to recuse myself from the game of human attraction before anyone pointed out that I’d already lost.”
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