Reconciling Democracy and Eugenics: Alice Lloyd and the Rehabilitation of the Kentucky Mountaineer.
The article examines the work of social reformer Alice Lloyd in Kentucky from her arrival in late 1915 to the mid-1920s when national economic and social trends significantly changed how she mobilized resources and worked. Topics include her concern with constructing a better and more efficient demo...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Southern History Vol. 89; no. 4; pp. 659 - 699 |
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Southern Historical Association
Nov2023
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| Sumario: | The article examines the work of social reformer Alice Lloyd in Kentucky from her arrival in late 1915 to the mid-1920s when national economic and social trends significantly changed how she mobilized resources and worked. Topics include her concern with constructing a better and more efficient democracy, her efforts to regulate the boundaries of U.S. citizenship, and way she attempted to reconcile the tension between hierarchical eugenic thought and democracy's commitment to egalitarianism. |
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