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Elizabeth Catte’s new book traces a shameful history and its legacy today. ARTHUR ESTABROOK PAPERS; M.E. GRENANDER SPECIAL COLLECTIONS & ARCHIVES; UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY, SUNY Carrie Buck and her mother, Emma, at the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, 1924 The top-down quest for social control in America often seems to lead, by a deep-seated sort of homing instinct, to schemes of reproductive coercion. Tucker Carlson’s recent fulminations about racial “replacement theory” are but the latest in a long line of pseudo-Darwinian depictions of social decline. Carlson himself, of course, was cribbing his ugly tirade from the baldly fascist speculations of scores of alt-right propagandists, who in turn gained unprecedented access to state power via the labors of racist Trump apparatchiks like Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller. ....