The I Index

Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia

Top of the pile

83

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

69/100

Critics

96/100

Scholars

N/A

Author:

Elizabeth Catte

Publisher:

Belt Publishing

Date:

February 2, 2021

The follow-up to What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia explores the legacy of white supremacy in a small Virginia town.

What The Reviewers Say

Barbara Spindel,
The Wall Street Journal
... 'eugenics is everywhere and nowhere at the same time'; Ms. Catte’s determination to pin it down propels the narrative.

Kirkus
[A] history of Virginia’s eugenics movement and its interconnections with racial, gender, and class prejudices.

Publishers Weekly
a concise and deeply unsettling study of the eugenics movement in Virginia.