Cotten Seiler’s White Care: The Impact of Race on American Infrastructure offers a history of discourses both about race and human potential, and public spending in infrastructure throughout, mostly, the twentieth century. The book argues that eugenicist rhetoric permeated, and still permeates, public policy in the United States, and has at moments both advanced and hindered the development of public projects. White Care also contends that the rhetoric of progress, in the United States, is inextricably linked to anxieties about the loss of white control of public spaces. Throughout the book, Seiler details the history of the Eugenics and Euthenics Read more