Description: "In Declared Defective: Native Americans, Eugenics, and the Myth of Nam Hollow, Robert Jarvenpa offers both an intriguing history of the mixed-race Native Americans named the "Nam," who originated from western New England, and a critical reevaluation of one of the earliest eugenics family studies, The Nam: A Study in Cacogenics, written in 1912 by the leading eugenicists Arthur H. Estabrook and Charles B. Davenport" --
Review Quotes: "Declared Defective will be of interest to scholars of Native North America, the Progressive Era, the history of science, and race and ethnicity."--Mikaëla M. Adams, Journal of American Ethnic History