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Frustrations with N.C. Sterilization Compensation
Last year one of the most prolific forces in American compulsory sterilization passed a law paying out compensation to those still living with the tragic legacy of the practice. North Carolina...
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Modern Eugenics, Sterilization, and the Anti-Immigrant Movement
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Eugenics’ Critics: Another Sort of ‘Defective’
Despite the power and popularity of American eugenics in the early 20th century, the movement also faced its share of critics: from the Catholic Church to Boasian anthropologists, some formally trained...
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The Problem With the “Population Bomb”: Eugenics and Population Control
Newsweek’s recent article “How to Defuse the Population Bomb” confronts an old subject with a frustratingly uncritical eye. The piece details the much-discussed problem of overpopulation with a focus...
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Virginia to Compensate Victims of Eugenic Sterilization
The State of Virginia has passed legislation that would offer financial compensation to victims of the state’s eugenic sterilization program, which forcibly sterilized over 8,000 Virginians deemed...
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Frustrations with N.C. Sterilization Compensation
Last year one of the most prolific forces in American compulsory sterilization passed a law paying out compensation to those still living with the tragic legacy of the practice. North Carolina...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Modern Eugenics, Sterilization, and the Anti-Immigrant Movement
“If America is to escape the doom of nations generally, it must breed good Americans.” –Harry H. Laughlin (1914), Eugenics Record Office superintendent,”expert” advisor on the 1924 Immigration...
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Eugenics’ Critics: Another Sort of ‘Defective’
Despite the power and popularity of American eugenics in the early 20th century, the movement also faced its share of critics: from the Catholic Church to Boasian anthropologists, some formally trained...
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The Problem With the “Population Bomb”: Eugenics and Population Control
Newsweek’s recent article “How to Defuse the Population Bomb” confronts an old subject with a frustratingly uncritical eye. The piece details the much-discussed problem of overpopulation with a focus...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Virginia to Compensate Victims of Eugenic Sterilization
The State of Virginia has passed legislation that would offer financial compensation to victims of the state’s eugenic sterilization program, which forcibly sterilized over 8,000 Virginians deemed...
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