The Degenerates
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Characters in the novel that are not in this list—There were many characters who lived in the institution who are not listed here with their diagnoses. They symbolize all the children and adults who were segregated from their families, friends, and communities for nothing more than being different.
Acknowledgments
So much gratitude to Chloe Morse-Harding, reference and instruction archivist at the Robert D. Farber University Archives & Special Collections, Goldfarb Library, Brandeis University, for all your help within the Samuel Gridley Howe Library collection, and to Laurie Block, executive director of the Disability History Museum.
Society owes a great debt to historians, and I owe an extra-special debt to this incredible group of them: Dr. Zosha Stuckey, who specializes in teaching rhetoric, writing, and social justice at Towson University; Dr. James W. Trent of Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management; Dr. Paul A. Lombardo, Regents’ Professor and Bobby Lee Cook Professor of Law at the Georgia State University College of Law; and Peter Engelman, associate editor at the Margaret Sanger Papers Project.
Many, many thanks to the following people for their excellent medical advice: Brian Skotko, MD, MPP, the Emma Campbell Endowed Chair on Down Syndrome and director of the Down Syndrome Program at Massachusetts General Hospital; Jeanhee Chung, MD, internist with Massachusetts General Hospital; and Juliana Hiraoka Catani, MD, attending physician at the Women’s Unit, Samaritano Hospital.
All my love goes to those who read, including Sarah Cassell, Leslie Caulfield, Lisa Majewski, and Irene Vazquez.
Heaps of appreciation to Reka Simonsen, Julia McCarthy, Rebecca Syracuse, Clare McGlade, and Bara MacNeill—the most tenacious team in the industry.
And to Kerry Sparks—there’s a lot of London in you (and I mean this in the best way possible).
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Mann, Jennifer Ann, author.
Title: The degenerates / J. Albert Mann.
Description: First edition. | New York City : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2020] | Includes bibliographical references. | Audience: Ages 14 Up. | Audience: Grades 10-12. | Summary: In 1928, Maxine, Rose, Alice, and London face vicious attendants and bullying older girls at the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded, each determined to change her fate at all costs. Includes historical notes about eugenics.
Identifiers: LCCN 2019035673 | ISBN 9781534419353 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781534419377 (eBook)
Subjects: CYAC: Inmates of institutions—Fiction. | People with disabilities—Fiction. | People with mental disabilities—Fiction. | Friendship—Fiction. | Bullying—Fiction. | African Americans—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.M31433 Deg 2020 | DDC [Fic]—dc23
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