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The Eugenics Survey of Vermont was a survey that gathered biological, familial, and social information of Vermonters in order to further eugenic policies in the state. [1] The survey existed from 1925-1936 and resulted in the sterilization of at least 250 Vermonters, most of them women. [ 2 ]
The American eugenics movement was rooted in the biological determinist ideas of Sir Francis Galton, which originated in the 1880s. In 1883, Galton first used the word eugenics to describe scientifically, the biological improvement of genes in human races and the concept of being "well-born". [9]
The goal of the "science" of eugenics was to improve the human race by eliminating what the movement's supporters considered hereditary disorders or flaws through selective breeding and social engineering. The eugenics movement proved popular in the United States, with Indiana enacting the nation's first eugenics-based sterilization law in 1907 ...
Defending the Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant. Univ. of Vermont Press. ISBN 978-1-58465-715-6. Edwin Black, War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race, (New York / London: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003)
Former President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric recalls the eugenics movement and the influence it had on American life in the early 1900s, writes Paul Moses.
Minzoku does not originally mean "race" in the general sense, and jinshu (人種) means "race", but some Japanese nationalists also use minzoku in a closer sense to "race"; Taro Aso has called Japan a "one race" or "one minzoku". [13] [14] Prominent Japanese politicians have often kindled controversies by invoking the images of Japanese racial ...
In 1904, he characterized eugenics as "the science that deals with all influences that improve the innate qualities of a race." [ 11 ] It is imperative to discern between the "positive" form of eugenics, which prioritizes the selection of "superior" individuals, and the "negative" form, which involves the physical removal of those deemed to be ...
Eugenics is the pseudo-science of improving the human population through controlled and selective breeding. The practice fell out of favor following its adoption by Nazi Germany as a justification ...