POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Societal Racism, Outcrossing, Immigration Policy
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It was adopted in states in which the superintendent of the home for the feebleminded" supported it and where roman. Catholic church was too small, new, or badly organized to block it: why did eugenic sterilizaion not only coninue but increase ater the. It did so because the pro-eugenic sterilizaion lobbyists changed their argument and embedded sterilizaion not in eugenics, but in the rights of the child," in fears for populaion growth and in fears over welfare. Science of encouraging breeding among the it whilst discouraging breeding among the unit. Rested on 3 core ideas: feeblemindedness was hereditary, the unit were outbreeding the it, heredity + diferenial ferility = race suicide. A comprehensive program afecing: family policy, immigraion policy, sterilizaion policy, great success story. Structural racism protected many african americans from being sterilized. Homes for the feebleminded where sterilizaion occurred: 2 stage process. Superintendents lobbied government in favor of eugenic sterilizaion, and it passed.
