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Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in by Alexandra Minna Stern

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By Alexandra Minna Stern

Many folks imagine that eugenics all yet disappeared with the autumn of Nazism, yet as this sweeping heritage demonstrates, the assumption of higher breeding had a large and excellent achieve within the usa in the course of the 20th century. With an unique emphasis at the American West, Eugenic Nation brings to mild many little-known facts—for instance, that one-third of the involuntary sterilizations during this kingdom happened in California among 1909 and 1979—as it explores the impact of eugenics on phenomena as assorted as race-based intelligence checks, tuition segregation, tropical drugs, the Border Patrol, and the environmental move.

Eugenic Nation starts within the 1900s, whilst influential California eugenicists molded an in depth time table of higher breeding for the remainder of the rustic. The e-book lines hereditarian theories of intercourse and gender to the tradition of conformity of the Fifties and strikes to the Nineteen Sixties, arguing that the liberation hobbies of that decade emerged partly as a problem to guidelines and practices knowledgeable through eugenics.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations\
Introduction
1. Race Betterment and Tropical medication in Imperial San Francisco
2. Quarantine and Eugenic Gatekeeping at the U.S.-Mexican Border
3. Instituting Eugenics in California
4. California’s Eugenic Landscapes
5. Centering Eugenics at the Family
6. Contesting Hereditarianism: Reassessing the 1960s
Epilogue

Notes
Bibliography
Index

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After a few years in the Southland, Terman moved to Stanford University, where he devoted himself to the nascent discipline of psychometrics and set out to redesign the mental test invented by Alfred Binet in France in the early 1900s, an undertaking that resulted in the Stanford-Binet intelligence test. Just over a decade later, he and his protégés had administered intelligence tests to thousands of children, had helped to introduce mental testing in dozens of school districts, and had set up the California Bureau of Juvenile Research to study the cognitive aptitudes of the state’s youngest generation.

1 A few hours later, under a bright sky, an entourage of politicians and merchants headed by Mayor James Rolph Jr. and Governor Hiram Johnson led a two-anda-half-mile-long procession from Van Ness Avenue and Broadway to the marina. 3 The president of the fair’s board of directors, Charles C. Moore, along with a local rabbi and minister, welcomed the crowd and congratulated the city on its marvelous achievement. Unable to attend, President Woodrow Wilson sent Franklin K. Lane, the secretary of the Interior.

One subject that received an enormous amount of time and space was health and disease, especially the areas of race betterment and tropical medicine. Indeed, the fair’s official poster, the “Thirteenth Labor of Hercules,” symbolized the intertwined significance of these two concerns and provided an iconography for the 30 | Race Betterment and Tropical Medicine apotheosis of empire, race, and sanitary intervention that crowned San Francisco as the Jewel of the Pacific. 10 If this figure embodied sheer masculine might, it was also a metaphor for the success of tropical medicine, which strove to rid the world’s hot and humid regions of insect- and waterborne diseases in order to make them hospitable for Europeans and European Americans.

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