Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Eugenics, the set of beliefs and practices which aims at improving the genetic quality of the human population, [1] [2] played a significant role in the history and culture of the United States from the late 19th century into the mid-20th century. [3]
Stephen Jay Gould asserted that restrictions on immigration passed in the United States during the 1920s (and overhauled in 1965 with the Immigration and Nationality Act) were motivated by the goals of eugenics. During the early 20th century, the United States and Canada began to receive far higher numbers of Southern and Eastern European ...
The Eugenics Record Office (ERO), located in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, United States, was a research institute that gathered biological and social information about the American population, serving as a center for eugenics and human heredity research from 1910 to 1939.
The contemporary history of eugenics began in the late 19th century, when a popular eugenics movement emerged in the United Kingdom, [6] and then spread to many countries, including the United States, Canada, Australia, [7] and most European countries (e.g. Sweden and Germany). In this period, people from across the political spectrum espoused ...
Slave breeding in the United States; State schools, US (for people with disabilities) Sterilization law in the United States; Sterilization of Latinas; Sterilization of Native American women; Stump v. Sparkman
Also: United States: People: By occupation: Eugenicists About Category:American eugenicists and related categories: This category's scope contains articles about American eugenicists , which may be a contentious label .
Essays in Eugenics (1909) Heredity in Relation to Eugenics (1911) Mankind at the Crossroads (1923) Daedalus; or, Science and the Future (1924) La raza cósmica (1925) Marriage and Morals (1929) The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection (1930) Man, the Unknown (1935) After Us (1936) Eugenics manifesto (1939) New Bottles for New Wine (1950) The ...
Nazi eugenics. Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring. Hereditary Health Courts "Racial hygiene" Lebensborn; Romani Holocaust; Doctors' Trial; US eugenics. Slave breeding in the US; Eugenics Survey of Vermont; Oneida stirpiculture; Immigration Act of 1924; Sterilization law in the United States. Buck v. Bell; Doe ex. rel ...