The Shameful History of Eugenics in America
All the histories of eugenics in America discuss Buck v. Bell. I have found Hansen & King the best chapter-length presentation. For those interested in a detailed, book-length account, there is Paul A. Lombardo, Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. ...
He was not afraid to embrace new ideas; unfortunately, theories of eugenics — then fashionable, now recognized as reprehensible — were among them. However, articles also continued to discuss traditional issues of science education, reform and state involvement, as well as the campaign to ...
Perhaps the most famous examples of eugenics are the policies of Nazi Germany during the rule of Adolf Hitler. The Nazis implemented many policies that were common in America and other Western countries at the time, like sterilizing the mentally ill. However, they extended these policies to murde...
Culture Shock and “Eugenics” The Assault on the Open Door The Galveston Plan Radicalism and Reaction X. The Golden Door Closes A Resurgence of Neo-Agrarian Nativism The Politicization of Demagoguery “The International Jew” David and the Industrial Goliath The Triumph of Restrictionism A Closing...
lose power in the 1940s and was completely discredited following the horrors of Nazi Germany. With modern advances in genetic testing, it is important to keep America’s eugenics history in mind. Yet, can weavoid repeating this dark chapter, if so many in our country don't know a...
Bruinius, Harry. 2006.Better for All the World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America’s Quest for Racial Purity. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Google Scholar Carey, Jane. 2012. “The Racial Imperatives of Sex: Birth Control and Eugenics in Britain, the United States and Aus...
eugenics – a term coined by Francis Galton in 1883 to refer to the idea of improving the human stock through encouraging and discouraging specific kinds of human matings – and the explosion of eugenics into a worldwide movement promoted by cutting edge scientific theories of the time in the...
Racism and Sexual Oppression in Anglo-America: A Genealogy But over the two years that I spent researching the eugenics movement for chapter 5, things were different. For once I had a ready answer to the dreaded question. "I'm studying the history of how poor people in Virginia were ......
Garland Reference Library of Social Sci... This book examines the ideas of two radical heroes of adult education: Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) and Paulo Freire (1921-1997). The book is organized into... D Coben 被引量: 49发表: 1998年 Eugenics and Education in America : Institutionalized ...