Learn about the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 and consider the racist themes that were on display.
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Beyond Classification
Explore three first person perspectives on stereotyping to understand how these prejudices can divide a society.
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Eugenics, Race, and Marriage
Learn about the case of Richard Loving and Mildred Jeter, who were prosecuted because they violated a Virginia law banning interracial couples from marrying.
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Revising the Test
Investigate how Lewis Terman, a professor of education at Stanford University, created a test in 1917 that measured the mental abilities of large groups of people.
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Targeting the "Unfit"
Learn about how eugenics was put into practice to deal with those who were labeled as “feebleminded.”
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The Origins of Eugenics
Learn about Francis Galton and the beginnings of eugenics, or “race science,” and consider the relationship between science and society.
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The Supreme Court and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
Read the case of Carrie Buck to learn about sterilization laws in the United States and to consider the impact that eugenics had on laws and public policy.
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Under the Cover of Law
Investigate Nazi Germany’s first eugenic law, the “Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring.”
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Who Is Human?
Explore past theories of what makes us human and the beginnings of the theory that humanity is divided into separate and unequal races.
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Race in US History
A Class Divided
Third-grade teacher, Jane Elliott, meets with her former class to discuss the experiment on discrimination she conducted 15 years earlier and the effects it had on their lives. She also gives the lesson to employees of the Iowa prison system.
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Race is Not Biology - Kwame Anthony Appiah
Kwame Anthony Appiah discusses modern and historical concepts of race.
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