Unnatural selections : eugenics in American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance / Daylanne K. English.

Chapel Hill ; London : University of North Carolina Press, [2004], ©2004.

xii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

W.E.B. Du Bois's family crisis -- T.S. Eliot's strange gods : celibacy, hierarchy, and tradition -- The making and delivering of Americans in Gertrude Stein's early writings, 1903-1925 -- Blessed are the barren : lynching, reproduction, and the drama of new Negro womanhood, 1916-1930 -- New white women the U.S. eugenic family studies field workers, 1910-1918.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-260) and index.