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217 abortion: in As I Lay Dying, 49, 57, 59, 61, 95–96; as a eugenic tool, 19, 20, 27, 44, 47, 49, 200n17; in Gathering Storm, 154–55; mentioned, 136; in These Are Our Lives, 113; in Weeds, 8. See also eugenics adultery: in As I Lay Dying, 51, 55; in Call Home the Heart, 172; in eugenic family studies, 192n21; in God’s Little Acre, 78; in To Make My Bread, 163; in Tobacco Road, 64. See also sexuality, poor white female African Americans: as creators of “American ” identity, 1–2; and eugenics, 15; as literary characters, 1–2; as “Other,” 1, 2, 3, 8; separate from white society, 2; like southern poor whites, 3; as stereotypes, 1 Agee, James: difficulties in writing Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, 123–24; and Fortune magazine, 122–23; popularity in the 1960s, 185; sexual attraction to Emma in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, 127–28; and the use of pseudonyms in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, 198n11; and Walker Evans, 122–23. See also Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Agee and Evans) All Over But the Shoutin’ (Bragg), 186 Allison, Dorothy, 186, 187. See also Bastard Out of Carolina (Allison) American identity, definition of. See African Americans; Great Depression; “Other”; whiteness And Their Children After Them (Maharidge and Williamson), 198n11 Anderson, Sherwood, 158, 180, 181, 182. See also Beyond Desire (Anderson) artificial insemination, 32, 34. See also eugenics As I Lay Dying (Faulkner), 10, 46, 47, 48–61, 93, 94, 97, 132, 154, 194n1, 194n4, 194n5. See also “hybridity,” in As I Lay Dying Back Country Woman, 184 “Backwoods” novels, 184, 201n2 Barren Ground (Glasgow), 7–8 Bastard Out of Carolina (Allison), 187 Beyond Desire (Anderson), 180–81, 182 birth control: in Call Home the Heart, 169, 172–73, 176, 178; and eugenic ideology, 27, 33, 49, 99, 133, 191n11, 193n29, 200n16; in Gathering Storm, 154, 155, 169; and Margaret Sanger, 20, 133, 191n9; in Mothers of the South, 121, 122, 198n9; in These Are Our Lives, 114, 116. See also eugenics Bolshevik geneticists, 47. See also Soviet Union Bourke-White, Margaret: and John Steinbeck , 80; method of photography used in You Have Seen Their Faces, 103–5, 106–7; and the New Deal, 99; and Roosevelt administration, 197n2. See also You Have Seen Their Faces (Caldwell, Erskine and Bourke-White) Index 218 index Bragg, Rick, 185, 186. See also All Over But the Shoutin’ (Bragg) breastfeeding: in Erskine Caldwell’s New York Post articles, 104; in Gathering Storm, 155, 157; in The Grapes of Wrath, 92; in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, 128–29; in Their Blood Is Strong, 83; in You Have Seen Their Faces, 104 “Bunglers,The” (Cadlwell, Ira), 30–31, 63, 69, 82, 192–93nn26–27. See also God’s Little Acre (Caldwell, Erskine); Tobacco Road (Caldwell, Erskine) Byrd, William, II, 189n3. See also Histories of the Dividing Line (Byrd) Cabin Road, 184 Caldwell, Erskine: and “The Bunglers,” 63; and the CPUSA, 68, 69; and documentary work, 99, 100, 106; and eugenics, 63, 64; focus on poor white women, 48, 77– 78; and “grotesque” images, 68; and the Guggenheim Foundation, 68–69, 195n13; and Malcolm Cowley 68; and Margaret Bourke-White, 99, 103; mentioned, 10, 11, 46; and Mike Gold, 68; and obscenity charge, 62; popularity of novels, 61–62; and “socialist geneticist” ideas, 47, 69, 195n12; son of Ira Caldwell, 30; sympathy towards poor white characters, 67–68, 78–79, 95–96; writings for New York Post, 100–1, 104, 105. See also God’s Little Acre (Caldwell, Erskine); Some American People (Caldwell, Erskine); Tobacco Road (Caldwell, Erskine); You Have Seen Their Faces (Caldwell, Erskine and Bourke-White) Caldwell, Ira: father of Erskine Caldwell, 61; focus on the South, 47; influence on Erskine Caldwell’s New York Post articles , 100–1; influence on God’s Little Acre, 69, 78; influence on Tobacco Road, 63, 67; writing of “The Bunglers,” 30–31, 63. See also “Bunglers,The” (Caldwell, Ira) Call Home the Heart (Dargan), 136, 139, 168, 169–79, 182, 199n2, 200n21, 201n27 Car (Crews), 186 Carrie Buck vs. Bell, 21, 28 Carver,Thomas Nixon, 30, 63, 191n8 child labor, 17, 134, 190–91n7 childbirth, 33, 162 Civil Rights Movement, 184, 185, 198n16 Communist Manifesto, The (Marx and Engels ), 193n35 Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA): and Erskine Caldwell, 68; and eugenics, 15, 35–38, 42, 193n32; focus on the family, 14, 42; and Gastonia...
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