Eugenics and Scientific Racism - National Human Genome …
2022年5月18日 · Eugenics is the scientifically erroneous and immoral theory of “racial improvement” and “planned breeding,” which gained popularity during the early 20th century. …
Eugenics: Definition, Movement & Meaning - HISTORY
2017年11月15日 · Eugenics is the now-discredited practice of “improving” the human race and reducing the impact of hereditary disease by mating people with desirable traits.
Eugenics: Its Origin and Development (1883 - Present)
Eugenics is an immoral and pseudoscientific theory that claims it is possible to perfect people and groups through genetics and the scientific laws of inheritance. Eugenicists used an incorrect …
Eugenics in the United States - Wikipedia
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 …
Eugenics | Definition, History, & Facts | Britannica
2024年11月25日 · Eugenics is the selection of desired heritable characteristics in order to improve future generations, typically in reference to humans. The term eugenics was coined in …
Origins of Eugenics: From Sir Francis Galton to Virginia's Racial ...
For Americans who feared the potential degradation of their race and culture, eugenics offered a convenient and scientifically plausible response to those fears. Sterilization of the “unfit” …
UVA and the History of Race: Eugenics, the Racial Integrity
2020年1月9日 · By the start of the 20 th century, the University of Virginia had become a center of an emerging new strain of racism – eugenics – that would create and perpetuate myths …
Eugenics, Race, and Purity - Race, Racism and the Law
2022年12月10日 · Laws prohibiting interracial marriage, a vestige of the colonial era, were revised to include a new, scientific gloss with biological definitions of “race” during the eugenics era. …
How did early eugenics affect racial equality, and how are those
2021年3月24日 · More frequently, they used the word “race” to mean vague national and regional groups such as “Londoners” or “highlanders” or “Cornish”. But far, far, far more common, …
Column: The false, racist theory of eugenics once ruled science
2018年2月17日 · Eugenics offered Americans in positions of power an authoritative scientific language to substantiate their biases against those they feared as dangerous.