Name/Title
Declared defective: Native Americans, Eugenics, and the Myth of Nam HollowEntry/Object ID
20.60.01Description
This book reveals that Nam Hollow was actually a community of marginalized, mixed-raced Native Americans, The Van Guilders, adapting to scarce resources during an era of tumultuous political and economic change. It disputes a 1912 book by Arthur Estabrook and Charles Davenport, leaders of an early eugenics movement, who claim The Nam family to be innately degenerate.