4. “A National Effort [to Establish] a Stable Negro Family Structure” – Poverty, Illegitimacy, and Black Motherhood in the 1960s

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Contents IX
4. List of Figures XIII
5. List of Abbreviations XV
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. “After All, a Woman is Biologically a Child Factory” – Eugenics and the Debate on Family Planning for African Americans in the 1920s and Early 1930s 23
8. 2. “Tomorrow’s Families” – Modernization Discourses and the Changing View on African American Women 55
9. 3. “The Zero Population Growth Game” – Debating Black Motherhood in the Age of Population Control 91
10. 4. “A National Effort [to Establish] a Stable Negro Family Structure” – Poverty, Illegitimacy, and Black Motherhood in the 1960s 131
11. 5. In Sickness and in Health – Discussing Reproductive Rights in the Age of Crack, AIDS, and Women’s Health 167
12. Conclusion and Outlook 213
13. Bibliography 223
14. Index 243