Eugenics
Eugenics
Includes “race science,” etc.
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Eugenics and Civic Biology: An Exploration of Buck vs. Bell |
Lesson Plan | February 24, 2008 |
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Eugenics, Race, and Marriage In challenging students to choose a mate carefully, the author of The New Civic Biology (Reading 1) implied that it was an individual choice. And for some individuals like the young men from Michigan described in the reading, it was. In other parts of the United States, the government had a voice in that decision, as Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter would discover. |
Publication Readings | January 3, 2012 |
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Faces of the Feebleminded "Faces of the Feebleminded" an excerpt from the documentary Forgotten Ellis Island, explains how psychologist Henry Goddard used facial characteristics and testing to classify inherited intelligence during the eugenics movement. |
Facing Today | April 8, 2008 |
From Theory to Classroom: Eugenics and Education |
Lesson Plan | February 24, 2008 |
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In DNA, New Worries About Prejudice
(New York Times, November 11, 2007) New advances in genetics can be abused and used to justify racism and prejudice or to counter harmful stereotypes. In the article, "In DNA Era, New Worries About Prejudice," scholars discuss the role of DNA in altering how we understand race. |
Facing Today | April 10, 2008 |
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Justice of Peace Denies Marriage License to Interracial Couple Louisiana Justice of the Peace Keith Bardwell refused to marry an interracial couple. |
Facing Today | October 19, 2009 |
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Race and Membership in American History: The Eugenics Movement Race and Membership in American History: The Eugenics Movement focuses on a time in the early 1900s when many people believed that some "races," classes, and individuals were superior to others. They used a new branch of scientific inquiry known as eugenics to justify their prejudices and advocate programs and policies aimed at solving the nation's problems by ridding society of "inferior racial traits."
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Library Resource | February 1, 2010 |
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Race and Membership in American History: The Eugenics Movement
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Publication | March 9, 2008 |
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Race, Sports, and Identity Some say the winner of this year’s New York City Marathon “is not really an American runner,” as reported in a recent New York Times article. |
Facing Today | November 13, 2009 |
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Revising the Test Even as Wallace Wallin and others were questioning the validity of the Goddard- Binet test, Lewis Terman, a professor of education at Stanford University, was creating a new version that would be later known as the Stanford-Binet test. It offered eugenicists a more reliable, less costly, and more efficient way of measuring the mental abilities of large groups of people. |
Publication Readings | January 3, 2012 |
Race and Membership in American History: The Eugenics Movement focuses on a time in the early 1900s when many people believed that some "races," classes, and individuals were superior to others. They used a new branch of scientific inquiry known as eugenics to justify their prejudices and advocate programs and policies aimed at solving the nation's problems by ridding society of "inferior racial traits."
