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Common Read | Automating Inequality: Section 1

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Section 1: From Poorhouse to Database
THEMES: Automated Decision Making, Economic Inequality

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Cited

  1. Bolton, Charles C. “Farmers without Land: The Plight of White Tenant Farmers and Sharecroppers.” Mississippi History Now, 2004. http://mshistorynow.mdah.state.ms.us/articles/228/farmers-without-land-the-plight-of-white-tenant-farmers-and-sharecroppers [Accessed Feb. 07, 2020.]
     
  2. Cray Jr., Robert E. “This Business of Relief: Confronting Poverty in a Southern City, 1740-1940.” Virginia Magazine of History & Biography, vol. 112, no. 4, Sept. 2004, p. 430. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ulh&AN=16466164&site=ehost-live.
     
  3. Lombardo, Paul. “Eugenics Sterilization Laws.” Social Origins of Eugenics, Dolan DNA Learning Center, Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory, www.eugenicsarchive.org/html/eugenics/essay8text.htm

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  1. Blakemore, Erin. “Poorhouses Were Designed to Punish People for Their Poverty.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 30 Jan. 2018, www.history.com/news/in-the-19th-century-the-last-place-you-wanted-to-go-was-the-poorhouse.
     
  2. Huddleston, Diane M. "The Poorhouse: Industrialization of the Poor." Department of History Capstone paper, Western Oregon University, 2012.

  3. Shallet, Todd & Asmussen, Namanny. "Farming the Poor." Department of History, Boise State University, 2016.