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...
Learn how the Ku Klux Klan, nativism, and eugenics are connected. Read a Ku Klux Klan definition and investigate nativism in the 1920s and how it...
During this time, castration was seen as a viable option, as “perversion should involve the loss of all rights, including the right to procreation.” The practice was upheld by the US Supreme Court in the Buck v. Bell decision of 1927; the Eugenics movement was eventually struck down in ...
This was the era of eugenics, remember, in which these old ideas about racial stratification and genetic inferiority were operationalized in state-sponsored sterilization programs and used to justify a host of toxic laws and Supreme Court rulings. They perpetuated colonialism and Jim Crow and the ...
1944:Nazi-funded Austrian pediatrician Hans Asperger publishes a popularized scientific study on autistic children, a case study describing four children ages 6 to 11. Much of his science was rooted in eugenics and the “race hygiene” politics of the Nazi regime. He notices parents of some of...
Reproducing a Fit Citizenry: Dependency, Eugenics, and the Law of Marriage in the United States, 1860-1920 Between the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, American state legislatures enacted a series of new laws that delineated a class of citizens who were deeme... MJ Lindsay - 《Law & ...
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he believed society was better served by identifying those with superior intelligence and supported efforts to encourage them to reproduce. Such beliefs were associated witheugenics(the promotion of selective breeding) and fueled early debates about the contributions of heredity and environment in defining...
In 1873, the United States Congress, acting to stop the growing availability of contraceptives and information about sexuality, passed what was known as theComstock Law. Some advocates of wider access to and information about contraceptives also advocatedeugenicsas a way to control the reproduction of...