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Mary Antin's Progressive Science: Eugenics, Evolution, and the Environment.
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- Author(s): Jirousek, Lori1
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Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies. Fall2008, Vol. 27 Issue 1, p58-79. 22p.
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The essay explores how author Mary Antin wrote as a Progressive social reformer in her 1912 autobiography "The Promised Land." Other subjects considered include contemporary scientific theories concerning eugenics, the environment, and evolution, American immigrant narratives, and cultural assimilation.
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