Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Breeders, Workers, and Mothers: The Beginning of the Literacy Test Debate
- 2 Parents and Progeny: The Dillingham Commission Report
- 3 Muscle, Miscegenation, and Manhood: The Literacy Test at the Height of the Progressive Era
- 4 Practical Aid and Sympathetic Understanding: Grace Abbott's Alternative to the Literacy Test
- 5 World War I and the Literacy Test
- 6 The Legacy of the Progressive Era Literacy Test Debate
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Notes
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 March 2018
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Breeders, Workers, and Mothers: The Beginning of the Literacy Test Debate
- 2 Parents and Progeny: The Dillingham Commission Report
- 3 Muscle, Miscegenation, and Manhood: The Literacy Test at the Height of the Progressive Era
- 4 Practical Aid and Sympathetic Understanding: Grace Abbott's Alternative to the Literacy Test
- 5 World War I and the Literacy Test
- 6 The Legacy of the Progressive Era Literacy Test Debate
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The Men and Women We WantGender, Race, and the Progressive Era Literacy Test Debate, pp. 139 - 178Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2010