{"product_id":"defectives-in-the-land-douglas-c-baynton-9780226758633","title":"Defectives in the Land: Disability and Immigration in the Age of Eugenics","description":"Immigration history has largely focused on the restriction of immigrants by race and ethnicity, overlooking disability as a crucial factor in the crafting of the image of the \"undesirable immigrant.\" \u003ci\u003eDefectives in the Land\u003c\/i\u003e, Douglas C. Baynton's groundbreaking new look at immigration and disability, aims to change this. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Baynton explains, immigration restriction in the United States was primarily intended to keep people with disabilities--known as \"defectives\"--out of the country. The list of those included is long: the deaf, blind, epileptic, and mobility impaired; people with curved spines, hernias, flat or club feet, missing limbs, and short limbs; those unusually short or tall; people with intellectual or psychiatric disabilities; intersexuals; men of \"poor physique\" and men diagnosed with \"feminism.\" Not only were disabled individuals excluded, but particular races and nationalities were also identified as undesirable based on their supposed susceptibility to mental, moral, and physical defects. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this transformative book, Baynton argues that early immigration laws were a cohesive whole--a decades-long effort to find an effective method of excluding people considered to be defective. This effort was one aspect of a national culture that was increasingly fixated on competition and efficiency, anxious about physical appearance and difference, and haunted by a fear of hereditary defect and the degeneration of the American race.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Douglas C. Baynton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022675863X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226758633\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/02\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d","brand":"Douglas C. Baynton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43978518298879,"sku":"9780226758633","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_11626e35-5340-4744-a251-a84e0d95f5a5.jpg?v=1683241974","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/defectives-in-the-land-douglas-c-baynton-9780226758633","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}