Race And Membership In American History
Subtitle: The Eugenics Movement
Publisher: Facing History & Ourselves Natl
Published: June 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780961584191
Subjects: Social Science; Sociology; Discrimination & Racism
Table of contents: title: Foreword vii; title: Preface viii; title: Overview x; title: Chapter 1. Science Fictions and Social Realities 1; title: 1. What Do We Do with a Variation? 2; title: 2. Eye of the Beholder 4; title: 3. Beyond Classification 8; title: 4. “What Is Your Race?” 13; title: 5. “Passing” 17; title: 6. Race and Racism 20; title: 7. Challenging Limits 26; title: 8. The Masterpiece Society 31; title: Chapter 2. Race, Democracy, and Citizenship 34; title: 1. Who Is Human? 36; title: 2. Who Is Equal? 39; title: 3. Ranking Humankind 43; title: 4. Science and Prejudice 47; title: 5. Science, Skulls, and Mustard Seeds 51; title: 6. Race and Citizenship 55; title: 7. Challenging Racism 58; title: Chapter 3. Evolution, “Progress,” and Eugenics 62; title: 1. From Darwin to Social Darwinism 63; title: 2. “Race Improvement” 68; title: 3. The Laws of Heredity 71; title: 4. Eugenics and the Promise of “Progress” 74; title: 5. Tracking Inherited Traits 77; title: 6. All in the Family 82; title: 7. Raising Questions 86; title: Chapter  4. In an Age of “Progress” 90; title: 1. “Marvels of a Marvelous Age” 92; title: 2. The End of the Frontier 96; title: 3. A Celebration of “Progress” 99; title: 4. “Progress,” Civilization, and “Color-Line Murder” 105; title: 5. Doors to Opportunity 109; title: 6. Taking Up the “White Man’s Burden” 113; title: 7. Disparities 119; title: 8. “Progress” and Poverty 124; title: 9. Rumors and Fears 129; title: 10.”The Kind of World We Lived In” 133; title: Chapter  5. Eugenics and the Power of Testing 140; title: 1. Science, Eugenics, and Propaganda 142; title: 2. Targeting the “Unfit” 146; title: 3. Identifying the “Unfit” 151; title: 4. Revising the Test 156; title: 5. Fears of Declining Intelligence 160; title: 6. Racism and Intelligence Test Scores 164; title: 7. Limiting Opportunity 167; title: 8. Challenging Racial Assumptions 172; title: 9. Intelligence Testing Today 176; title: Chapter 6. Toward Civic Biology 181; title: 1. What Did You Learn in School Today? 182; title: 2. Eugenics, Race, and Marriage 187; title: 3. Controlling the “Unfit” 191; title: 4. “Three Generations of Imbeciles”? 195; title: 5. Apology or “Regrets”? 201; title: Chapter  7. Eugenics, Citizenship, and Immigration 206; title: 1. Guarded Gates or an Open Door? 207; title: 2. From an Immigrant’s Perspective 211; title: 3. Who May Enter? 214; title: 4. Race and Citizenship 216; title: 5. War, Immigration, and Hysteria 220; title: 6. Restricting Immigration 223; title: 7. The Debate in Congress 226; title: 8. “A Defensive Action” 232; title: 9. Immigration and Racism 235; title: Chapter 8. The Nazi Connection 240; title: 1. Eugenicists, Democrats, and Dictators 242; title: 2. The American Influence 244; title: 3. ”Thinking Biologically” 247; title: 4. Ideas Have Consequences 251; title: 5. Under the Cover of Law 256; title: 6. Citizenship and “Racial Enemies” 262; title: 7. Eugenics and American Public Policy 266; title: 8. Honorary Degrees and Propaganda 269; title: 9. Protesting Eugenic Policies 272; title: 10. New Discoveries 275; title: 11. “Where Is this Path Taking Us?” 278; title: 12. Confronting a “Twisted Science” 283; title: Chapter 9. Legacies and Possibilities 288; title: 1. The Unknown Citizen 290; title: 2. “The Whole Is Not the Sum of Its Parts” 292; title: 3. Is Race “Skin Deep”? 295; title: 4. The Power of Stereotypes 302; title: 5. Measuring Intelligences 310; title: 6. Trends in Genetic Research 315; title: 7. Will Genetic Research Lead to Eugenic Policies? 320; title: 8. Raising Moral Questions 324; title: 9. The Power of History 331; title: For Further Investigation 334; title: Index 344