A memoir-like work by Maxine Hong Kingston that blends childhood memories, family stories, and Chinese legend. It uses mythic imagination to trace the making of a self as a woman and as an American.

Memory and legend merge as a self takes shape.

A social-historical study by Allan Chase that traces scientific racism from Malthusian ideas into the eugenics movement. It examines how discrimination was justified over time and tests that logic against the historical record.

A study tracing the lineage of discrimination from population theory to eugenics.