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White Care

The Impact of Race on American Infrastructure


304 pages | 5 halftones | 6 x 9

Black Studies

History: American History, History of Ideas

Table of Contents

Introduction: Infrastructure and Future-Orientation
Chapter 1. The Forms and Beneficiaries of Infrastructure
Chapter 2. “Care for the Race”
Chapter 3. “A Heritage of Hygienic Experiences”: Euthenics and the Population as Child
Chapter 4. “The Capital Nature Provides”: Make-Live and Let-Die Infrastructures of Early Custodial Liberalism
Chapter 5. Consanguine and Beset Whiteness: The Beneficiary Population of the New Deal
Chapter 6. “Biological Equality!” and Racialized Futurity at Midcentury
Chapter 7. The Surround of White Care
Chapter 8. “The Best Horse They’ve Got”: Race Realism and the Decline of Custodial Liberalism
Conclusion: The Renunciation of Populational Care
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

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