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Book John King s the Breeding of Contempt

Download or read book John King s the Breeding of Contempt written by Griff-King Publishing & Communications Inc and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Breeding Contempt

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  • Author : Mark A. Largent
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 0813549981
  • Pages : 229 pages

Download or read book Breeding Contempt written by Mark A. Largent and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Publisher: Most closely associated today with the Nazis and World War II atrocities, eugenics is sometimes described as a government-orchestrated breeding program, other times as a pseudo-science, and often as the first step leading to genocide. Less frequently is it depicted as a movement having links to America-a nation that has historically prided itself for its scientific rationality. But eugenics does have a history in the United States-a history that is largely the story of biologist Charles Davenport. Davenport, who led the Eugenics Records Office in the late nineteenth century, provided physicians, social scientists, and lawmakers with the scientific data and authority that enabled them to coercively sterilize men and women who were thought to be socially deviant, unfit to pass on their genes, and unable to raise healthy children. Moreover, Mark A. Largent shows how even in modern times, remnants of eugenics philosophies persist in this country as certain public figures advocate a brand of birth control-such as progesterone shots for male criminals-that are only steps away from the castrations that were once performed.

Book The Breeding of Contempt

Download or read book The Breeding of Contempt written by John King and published by . This book was released on 2003-06-01 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Breeding Of Contempt, details two horrific events in the Nation's history. The 1973 mass murder of seven people in Washington, D.C., and the 1977 siege on Washington that left a reporter dead, and nearly took the life of a popular city councilman. The book also introduces readers to a literary first, a Black family hiding in the Federal Witness Protection Program. The Breeding of Contempt reintroduces the reading public to some of the Black leaders of the 1960's and 1970's, and also introduces others who would become powerful a decade later. Finally, the book gives its readers a glimpse into a virtually unknown group, the Black mafia, who operated in Philadelphia in the 1970's, terrorizing the citizenry of Philadelphia.

Book John King s The Breeding of Contempt

Download or read book John King s The Breeding of Contempt written by Griff-King Publishing & Communications and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-19 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John King's The Breeding of Contempt: New account on old crimes; tells the story of the first African-American family in the Witness Protection Program, due to one of the most horrific mass murders in 20th Century American-History. The book details the rift between to black religious organizations, the Hanafis and the Nation of Islam. The book also introduces a first, a black organized crime group attempting to take over the third largest city in the United States. and introduces forgotten figures like Major Coxson, a onetime mayoral candidate and best friend to heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali.

Book Breeding Contempt

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  • Author : Rochele Evans
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2011-11
  • ISBN : 9781105083631
  • Pages : 487 pages

Download or read book Breeding Contempt written by Rochele Evans and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 6x9 Hardback Special Edition Breeding Contempt is the first full length novel of a four-book series entitled WOMEN'S WORLD. The second book in this series, Balancing Power, is also complete. The third book in the series, Total Control, is well underway. The fourth book in the series is entitled Retribution. The story begins in the early 1900's in New Orleans. A beautiful young Creole woman finds herself at the mercy of men, after being orphaned. With only her charm and extreme beauty to bargain with, Marie survives, but not for long. History repeats itself in the next generation. Marie's daughter Clarise is left alone to fend for herself.

Book Breeding Contempt

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  • Author : Mark A. Largent
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780813541839
  • Pages : 213 pages

Download or read book Breeding Contempt written by Mark A. Largent and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Mark A. Largent explores the history of compulsory sterilization in the United States by examining the assumptions and motivations that led to the coerced sterilization of tens of thousands of Americans during the twentieth century."--BOOK JACKET.

Book A Matter of Breeding

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  • Author : Michael Brandow
  • Publisher : Beacon Press
  • Release : 2015-02-03
  • ISBN : 0807033448
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book A Matter of Breeding written by Michael Brandow and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative look at the ‘cult of pedigree’ and an entertaining social history of purebred dogs—“a must-read for all dog lovers” (Booklist). So-called “purebreds” are the mainstay of the dog industry. Expert Michael Brandow argues these aren’t time-honored traditions—but rather commercial inventions of the 19th century that were marketed as status symbols to a growing middle class. Combining social history and consumer studies with sharp commentary, this reveals the sordid history of the dog industry and shows how our brand-name pets pay the price with devastatingly poor health. It includes chapters devoted to popular breeds such as: • Golden Retrievers • Boston Terriers • English Bulldogs • Labrador Retrievers An essential read for animal lovers and animal rights activists everywhere, A Matter of Breeding is a fresh take on the history pedigree dogs and encourages us to love all our furry friends—no matter the coat color or price tag. “If you’re considering welcoming a dog (or two) into your family, read Michael Brandow’s fascinating and eye-opening book before visiting a pet store or breeder.” —Betsy Banks Saul, founder of Petfinder.com

Book Claiming Vanessa

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  • Author : Addison Wolf
  • Publisher : Independently Published
  • Release : 2022-08-17
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Claiming Vanessa written by Addison Wolf and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-08-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They want a broodmare. I want out. I've never wanted anything to do with the mafia life. I was going to get my degree and get out. But thanks to mafia warring, I'm now being held hostage by one of the largest criminal empires. Giulio Pavone is as personable as he is cruel, treating women like nothing more than product to be sold. Damien Rossi's faux gentle touch makes my skin crawl. Slayer has made no secret how much he wants to see my tears. And above all, they want to forcibly use me to continue the Pavone family line. I'm nothing but a broodmare to them. I know if I get pregnant, my chance of escape becomes next to nothing. I have to get out. I have to stay strong. I can't become one of the broken girls they sell at their seedy clubs. Note: This work contains extremely dark themes with potentially triggering content, including forced pregnancy. Read at your own discretion. Though this book picks up where Loving Lucia left off for Vanessa's story, it is not necessary to read the Spoils of Victory trilogy before diving into the Breeding Contempt trilogy.

Book Keep Out of Reach of Children

Download or read book Keep Out of Reach of Children written by Mark A. Largent and published by Bellevue Literary Press. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating history of a public health crisis. Compellingly written and insightful, Keep Out of Reach of Children traces the discovery of Reye’s syndrome, research into its causes, industry’s efforts to avoid warning labels on one suspected cause, aspirin, and the feared disease’s sudden disappearance. Largent’s empathy is with the myriad children and parents harmed by the disease, while he challenges the triumphalist view that labeling solved the crisis.” —ERIK M. CONWAY, coauthor of Merchants of Doubt “Largent’s engaging and honest account explores how medical mysteries are shaped by prevailing narratives about venal drug companies, heroic investigators, and Johnny-come-lately politicians.” —HELEN EPSTEIN, author of The Invisible Cure “Fascinating. . . . Thought-provoking.” —Booklist “Well-researched. . . . A revealing work.” —Kirkus Reviews Reye’s syndrome, identified in 1963, was a debilitating, rare condition that typically afflicted healthy children just emerging from the flu or other minor illnesses. It began with vomiting, followed by confusion, coma, and in 50 percent of all cases, death. Survivors were often left with permanent liver or brain damage. Desperate, terrorized parents and doctors pursued dramatic, often ineffectual treatments. For over fifteen years, many inconclusive theories were posited as to its causes. The Centers for Disease Control dispatched its Epidemic Intelligence Service to investigate, culminating in a study that suggested a link to aspirin. Congress held hearings at which parents, researchers, and pharmaceutical executives testified. The result was a warning to parents and doctors to avoid pediatric use of aspirin, leading to the widespread substitution of alternative fever and pain reducers. But before a true cause was definitively established, Reye’s syndrome simply vanished. A harrowing medical mystery, Keep Out of Reach of Children is the first and only book to chart the history of Reye’s syndrome and reveal the confluence of scientific and social forces that determined the public health policy response, for better or for ill. Mark A. Largent, a survivor of Reye’s syndrome, is the author of Vaccine: The Debate in Modern America and Breeding Contempt: The History of Coerced Sterilization in the United States. He is a historian of science, Associate Professor in James Madison College at Michigan State University, and Associate Dean in Lyman Briggs College at Michigan State University. He lives in Lansing, Michigan.

Book Elijah of Buxton  Scholastic Gold

Download or read book Elijah of Buxton Scholastic Gold written by Christopher Paul Curtis and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master storyteller Christopher Paul Curtis's Newbery Honor novel, featuring his trademark humor and unique narrative voice, is now part of the Scholastic Gold line! Elijah of Buxton, recipient of the Newbery Honor and winner of the Coretta Scott King Award, joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. This edition includes exclusive bonus content!Eleven-year-old Elijah lives in Buxton, Canada, a settlement of runaway slaves near the American border. Elijah's the first child in town to be born free, and he ought to be famous just for that -- not to mention for being the best at chunking rocks and catching fish. Unfortunately, all that most people see is a "fra-gile" boy who's scared of snakes and tends to talk too much. But everything changes when a former slave steals money from Elijah's friend, who has been saving to buy his family out of captivity in the South. Now it's up to Elijah to track down the thief -- and his dangerous journey just might make a hero out of him, if only he can find the courage to get back home.

Book Imbeciles

    Book Details:
  • Author : Adam Seth Cohen
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 1594204187
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book Imbeciles written by Adam Seth Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of America's great miscarriages of justice, the Supreme Court's infamous 1927 Buck v. Bell ruling made government sterilization of "undesirable" citizens the law of the land New York Times bestselling author Adam Cohen tells the story in Imbeciles of one of the darkest moments in the American legal tradition: the Supreme Court's decision to champion eugenic sterilization for the greater good of the country. In 1927, when the nation was caught up in eugenic fervor, the justices allowed Virginia to sterilize Carrie Buck, a perfectly normal young woman, for being an "imbecile." It is a story with many villains, from the superintendent of the Dickensian Virginia Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded who chose Carrie for sterilization to the former Missouri agriculture professor and Nazi sympathizer who was the nation's leading advocate for eugenic sterilization. But the most troubling actors of all were the eight Supreme Court justices who were in the majority - including William Howard Taft, the former president; Louis Brandeis, the legendary progressive; and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., America's most esteemed justice, who wrote the decision urging the nation to embark on a program of mass eugenic sterilization. Exposing this tremendous injustice--which led to the sterilization of 70,000 Americans--Imbeciles overturns cherished myths and reappraises heroic figures in its relentless pursuit of the truth. With the precision of a legal brief and the passion of a front-page exposé, Cohen's Imbeciles is an unquestionable triumph of American legal and social history, an ardent accusation against these acclaimed men and our own optimistic faith in progress.

Book Women s World   Book 1  Breeding Contempt

Download or read book Women s World Book 1 Breeding Contempt written by Rochele Evans and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 6x9 Paperback Edition. Breeding Contempt is the first full length novel of a four-book series entitled WOMEN'S WORLD. The second book in this series, Balancing Power, is also complete. The third book in the series, Total Control, is well underway. The fourth book in the series is entitled Retribution. The story begins in the early 1900's in New Orleans. A beautiful young Creole woman finds herself at the mercy of men, after being orphaned. With only her charm and extreme beauty to bargain with, Marie survives, but not for long. History repeats itself in the next generation. Marie's daughter Clarise is left alone to fend for herself.

Book Why Education Is Useless

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  • Author : Daniel Cottom
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2013-04-09
  • ISBN : 081220168X
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Why Education Is Useless written by Daniel Cottom and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education is useless because it destroys our common sense, because it isolates us from the rest of humanity, because it hardens our hearts and swells our heads. Bookish persons have long been subjects of suspicion and contempt and nowhere more so, perhaps, than in the United States during the past twenty years. Critics of education point to the Nazism of Martin Heidegger, for example, to assert the inhumanity of highly learned people; they contend that an oppressive form of identity politics has taken over the academy and complain that the art world has been overrun by culturally privileged elitists. There are always, it seems, far more reasons to disparage the ivory tower than to honor it. The uselessness of education, particularly in the humanities, is a pervasive theme in Western cultural history. With wit and precision, Why Education Is Useless engages those who attack learning by focusing on topics such as the nature of humanity, love, beauty, and identity as well as academic scandals, identity politics, multiculturalism, and the corporatization of academe. Asserting that hostility toward education cannot be dismissed as the reaction of barbarians, fools, and nihilists, Daniel Cottom brings a fresh perspective to all these topics while still making the debates about them comprehensible to those who are not academic insiders. A brilliant and provocative work of cultural argument and analysis, Why Education Is Useless brings in materials from literature, philosophy, art, film, and other fields and proceeds from the assumption that hostility to education is an extremely complex phenomenon, both historically and in contemporary American life. According to Cottom, we must understand the perdurable appeal of this antagonism if we are to have any chance of recognizing its manifestations—and countering them. Ranging in reference from Montaigne to George Bush, from Sappho to Timothy McVeigh, Why Education Is Useless is a lively investigation of a notion that has persisted from antiquity through the Renaissance and into the modern era, when the debate over the relative advantages of a liberal and a useful education first arose. Facing head on the conception of utility articulated in the nineteenth century by John Stuart Mill, and directly opposing the hostile conceptions of inutility that have been popularized in recent decades by such ideologues as Allan Bloom, Harold Bloom, and John Ellis, Cottom contends that education must indeed be "useless" if it is to be worthy of its name.

Book Breeding Contempt

Download or read book Breeding Contempt written by Amanda Lee and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thesis describes the artist's sculptural exhibition, Breeding Contempt, a body of work that explores the artist's struggle for individuation and creative empowerment, against the restrictions of a dysfunctional environment. The author details how she incorporates her life experiences into the thematic basis of this artwork, as well as the techniques used in the making of the sculptures.

Book Love After War

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  • Author : Cheris Hodges
  • Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
  • Release : 2013-11-01
  • ISBN : 075827663X
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book Love After War written by Cheris Hodges and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Count on Cheris Hodges to deliver a sassy, sexy romantic read. --Farrah Rochon, author of Always and Forever When club owner Adrian Bryant discovers his biological father is hotel magnate Elliot Crawford, his life unravels. Shunned by Crawford while he and his mother struggled, Adrian hatches a high-profile plan to destroy the Crawford name--and the reputations of his two half-brothers. But to shield the woman he loves from the hell he intends to unleash, Adrian has to let her go. Photographer Dana Singleton is heartbroken and confused by Adrian's behavior. But just when she's given up on their relationship, she begins to discover the truth--and a dark side of Adrian she never knew existed. As the stakes get higher, she will have to ask herself if she can love a man who is capable of such vengeance--or if he can learn to forgive. . . "Hodges makes magic with this troupe." --Publishers Weekly on His Sexy Bad Habit "A fun and romantic story. . .Recipe for Desire has a touch of drama, humor and lots of sensual tension to keep readers turning page after page." --APOOO BookClub on Recipe for Desire "Hodges does a wonderful job of writing stories that have a positive message underneath all that passion. Great read!" --Urban Reviews on Recipe for Desire

Book Medical Stigmata

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  • Author : Kirk A. Johnson
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2018-10-12
  • ISBN : 9811329923
  • Pages : 182 pages

Download or read book Medical Stigmata written by Kirk A. Johnson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book observes the idea of race as a false representation for the cause of disease. Race-based medicine, an emerging field in pharmacology, aims to create a specialty market based on racial groups. Within this market, the drug BiDil set a precedent in this area of medicine targeting African Americans as its first racial group. Consequently, selecting African Americans as a “starter group” led to ethical questions regarding the motive behind race-based medicine within the context of the larger treatment of blacks in American medical history. This book therefore links medicine and American eugenics, examines race-based medicine’s influence on the perception of the black body, traces the influence of BiDil’s approval on the resurgence of race-based medicine, and assesses the black church’s response to race-based medicine using black liberation theology as a means to social justice.

Book The Breeder s Gazette

Download or read book The Breeder s Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: