Assertion: scientific racism | /r/ObjectUse | used as justification
Facets:
value: for anti-miscegenation laws
type: PURPOSE
value: for eugenics programs
type: PURPOSE
value: for compulsory sterilization
type: PURPOSE
value: for the immigration act of 1924
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Scientific racism was also used as a justification for the Emergency Quota Act of 1921 and the Immigration Act of 1924 (Johnson–Reed Act), which imposed racial quotas limiting Italian American immigration to the United States and immigration from other southern European and eastern European nations.
text: Before World War II (1939–45), scientific racism remained common to anthropology, and was used as justification for eugenics programs, compulsory sterilization, anti-miscegenation laws, and immigration restrictions in Europe and the United States.