Picture imperfect : photography and eugenics 1870-1940

Contents : / Racial-type photographs in the Colonial period -- The degenerate face: nineteenth-century prison photographs -- The eugenics movement begins : Galton and the races of Britain -- Building a healthy nation : eugenic images in the United States, 1890-1935 -- Creating the master race: photography and the racial selection in Germany --Sub-human versus the master race: racial-type photographs and Nazi party propaganda -- Eugenics under fire: the racial-type imagery of Boas, Du Bois, Huxley and Hadden.