Harold & Wilma Good Library: SOC 336 Latin American Societies and Cultures (Spring 2012, Prieto): Eugenics

Books

Books in addition to those listed on handout.

The Hour of Eugenics: Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America
Nancy Leys Stepan. 1991. Cornell University Press.
Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil
Edward Eric Telles. 2006. Princeton University Press.

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In EBSCO, you can search the following 3 at the same time (check the boxes). Combine keywords and then narrow down to searching subjects from relevant articles (for a more specific search). Keywords/subjects: "scientific racism" "Brazil" "Eugenics" "white*" (* gets all endings in EBSCO, eg. "whites") "race" "Latin America" "Latin American history"...

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