Book ID: CBB001452077

Sterilized by the State: Eugenics, Race, and the Population Scare in Twentieth-Century North America (2013)

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Hansen, Randall (Author)
King, Desmond S. (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: viii + 303 pp.
Language: English

This book is the first comprehensive analysis of eugenics in North America focused on the second half of the twentieth century. Based on new research the authors show why eugenic sterilization policies persisted after the 1940s in the United States and Canada. Through extensive archival research,they show how both superintendents at homes for the 'feebleminded' and pro-sterilization advocates repositioned themselves after 1945 to avoid the taint of Nazi eugenics. Drawing on interviews with victims of sterilization and primary documents, this book traces the post-1940s development of eugenic policy and shows that both eugenic arguments and committed eugenicists informed population, welfare, and birth control policy in postwar America. In providing revisionist histories of the choice movement, the anti-population growth movement, and the Great Society programs, this book contributes to public policy and political and intellectual history. Contents: Coerced sterilization: outcomes, theories, methods -- The eugenicists: short portraits -- Eugenic anxieties -- Homes for the feebleminded -- The eugenicists' first throw: sterilization policy before the Second World War -- Buck v. bell and beyond -- Sterilization thwarted -- Sterilization and murder in Nazi Germany -- Revival and recovery: eugenics in new clothes -- Eugenics and world population growth -- The sterilized: voices from Alberta and Oregon -- Postwar sterilization: institutions and abuse -- Welfare, African Americans, and coerced sterilization -- Those who sterilized -- A century of coerced sterilization.

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Authors & Contributors
Rice, Carla
Manning, Dolleen Tisawii'ashii
Stonefish, Mona
Castro Arcos, Javier
Hay, Travis
Elisa Edwards
Concepts
Science and race
Eugenics
Science and government
Public health
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Science and politics
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century, early
20th century
19th century
21st century
Places
Canada
United States
San Francisco (California)
Pacific Northwest (North America)
Los Angeles (California)
Minnesota (U.S.)
Institutions
International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics (IAAEE)
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