eugenics

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  4/17/2021
  

  Head of Planned Parenthood: We’re Done Making Excuses for Our Founder

  by Alexis McGill Johnson

  "Margaret Sanger harmed generations with her beliefs. In our second century, Planned Parenthood has a chance to heal those harms," says the organization's current leader. 

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  4/15/2021
  

  “Containment and Control, Not Care or Cure”: An Interview with Elizabeth Catte on Virginia’s Eugenics Movement

  by Sarah Calise

  "I decided to have a 'turn to the camera' moment in Pure America and just explicitly say that I think the eugenicists I write about are rotten people, not particularly smart or even interesting, and that I’d present evidence they lied and bluffed and enjoyed hurting people."

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  3/30/2021
  

  One Man’s Quest to Crack the Modern Anti-Immigration Movement—by Unsealing Its Architect’s Papers

  John Tanton donated 25 boxes of documents related to his work with anti-immigration advocacy organizations beginning in the 1960s. The gift stipulated that much of the collection be sealed until 2035. An immigration advocate says that Tanton's connections to right-wing anti-immigrant groups and the pro-eugenics Pioneer Fund means the university should unseal the papers now. 

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• SOURCE: Paris Review
  3/11/2021
  

  The Trouble with Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  by Halle Butler

  The resurrection of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's literary stature in the 1970s ran counter to the author's own self-understanding, summed up in her statement "I abominate being called a feminist." It also obscured her racist nativism. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  1/27/2021
  

  The Logic of Eugenics Still Haunts Virginia

  Ellen Wayland-Smith reviews Elizabeth Catte's book Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  10/26/2020
  

  UC Berkeley is Disavowing its Eugenic Research Fund after Bioethicist and Other Faculty Call it Out

  “Regardless of what was done with the money, it was just wrong for us to take it in the first place. It’s antithetical to everything that the school stands for.”

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• SOURCE: ABC11 (NC)
  7/23/2020
  

  North Carolina Committed Genocide Against Black People from 1958-1968, Duke Researchers Say

  "When you use the term genocide, it really brings home the fact that this isn't just over reproductive behavior, it's really about eliminating a group of people," said a co-author of the study.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/21/2020
  

  Planned Parenthood To Remove Margaret Sanger’s Name From N.Y. Clinic Over Eugenics Support

  “The problem with Sanger was she was so single minded that she was willing to align herself with anybody,” Margaret Sanger Papers Project founder Esther Katz said. “These are problematic positions. She did speak to the Klan. But I think obliterating her...doesn’t allow us to discuss this in any way or debate it.”

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• SOURCE: Activist History
  7/2/2020
  

  Suspect Science: Today’s Anglo-American Eugenics

  by Alexandra Fair

  Time and time again, the Pioneer Fund subsidized research that advanced eugenic theories about racial difference and actively undermined racial equality.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  6/15/2020
  

  Revisiting Mengele’s Malignant “Race Science”

  New histories suggest that the notorious Nazi was less a twisted figure than a true believer in a long-standing movement to use science to prove racial superiority.

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• 6/7/2020
  

  Trump's Bad "Bloodlines"

  by Rafael Medoff

  Donald Trump recently continued an ignoble legacy of American presidents endorsing eugenics and other pseudoscientific theories of racial hierarchy.

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• SOURCE: Ted.com
  4/25/2020
  

  The Dark History of IQ Tests (Video)

  by Stefan Dombrowski

  Since 1905, IQ testing has been put to constructive and highly destructive uses, as this Ted video explains.

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• SOURCE: Nursing Clio
  2/25/20
  

  Pathologizing Politics: Eugenics and Political Discourse in the Modern United States

  by Evan P. Sullivan

  Americans enjoy near unity in resorting to eugenic terms for political purposes. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/17/20
  

  Eugenics is trending. That’s a problem.

  by Caitlin Fendley

  Any effort to slow population growth must center on reproductive justice.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/8/20
  

  Before the ‘Final Solution’ There Was a ‘Test Killing’

  by Kenny Fries

  Too few know the history of the Nazi methodical mass murder of disabled people. That is why I write.

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• 5/26/19
  

  Clarence Thomas is Wrong: It’s Restrictions on Abortion that Echo America’s Eugenics Past

  by Molly Ladd-Taylor and Johanna Schoen

  The animating belief of eugenics—the state should control the reproduction of poor people, immigrants, and women of color—is central to current abortion politics.

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• 10/14/18
  

  Eugenic Madness Before We Even Had a Word for Eugenics

  by Theodore M. Porter

  Research now shows systematic research on human heredity goes back at least half a century longer than supposed, and that from the start it was bound up with eugenic fears and ambitions.

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• SOURCE: The Times Higher Eduacation
  4-30-18
  

  Scholar says she had to stop researching Henry James to write a history book about the origins of Trumpism

  Professor Sarah Churchwell traced Trump’s ideas to the KKK and eugenics.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  3-22-18
  

  California Once Targeted Latinas for Forced Sterilization

  To better understand the nation’s most aggressive eugenic sterilization program, our research team tracked sterilization requests of over 20,000 people.

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• SOURCE: The Marshall Project
  7-26-17
  

  Our Long, Troubling History of Sterilizing the Incarcerated

  by David M. Perry

  State-sanctioned efforts to keep the incarcerated from reproducing began in the early 20th century and continue today.