SOCI 142gm Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Racial Hierarchy, Eugenics, Economic System
SOCI 142 Week 9 (Tuesday)
● Fred Utengsu
o Went to USC and swam
o From the Philippines
o Gave 8 million to renovate the swimming complex
o Largest gift from a student athlete
o From the money from his business
● Sammy Lee
o Medical school
o Graduated in 1947
o In the Olympics and won gold medals for diving
o He grew up in Pasadena
o He could only use his local swimming pool in Pasadena once a week because
Pasadea’s pool as ol ope to aial ioities oe a eek
● Rodriguez and Cordero-Guzman – Placing Race in Context
o Race
▪ Biology
● Racial hierarchy
o Policies of genocide, segregation in work, housing, public
places, etc.
o Belief that thee’s a diffeee aog goups o a aial
hierarchy
o Earlier, Europeans were seen as different racial groups,
o the’e just see as white
▪ Different from Italian, English, Greek, etc.
● Eugenics
o Idea where you can improve the quality of a group
through selected breeding
o People thought there were different qualities of a group
based on their racial qualities
o IQ tests were used to show inferiority
▪ Showed that 83% of Jews and Italians were feeble-
minded
o Buck v. Bell 1927 Supreme Court Case
▪ “teilizatio agaist a peso’s o
▪ Vote to 8 to 1
▪ Carry Buck was labeled promiscuous these are
problems
● Young woman raised by a foster family and
was raped by the nephew of the foster
parents
● The parents were scared that the nephew
would be accused of rape, she was put in a
home and sterilized there
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