Talk:Ignatz Leo Nascher

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this is out of place in the geriatrics section where I found it. If included, should probably be with added info/scope in it' own section: His first book, The Wretches of Povertyville: A Sociological Study of the Bowery (Chicago: Jos J Lanzit 1909) begins with the words, "'Tis a wretched world, this underworld of Povertyville, where poverty begets vice, and vice begets crime, where virtue has its price, and conscience is stilled, then forgotten." A modern critic, Mara L. Keire, suggests that Nascher expressed racist views in his Povertyville book. According to her, some "authors asserted that opium smoking was the only way that white prostitutes could endure having sex with Chinese men; for a typical example, see I. L. Nascher, The Wretches of Povertyville, [p. 134]." ("Dope fiends and degenerates: the gendering of addiction in the early twentieth century," Journal of Social History, Summer, 1998.) ^[1]--Xris0 (talk) 18:11, 15 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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