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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, Randall Hansen and Desmond King show why eugenic sterilization policies persisted after the 1940s in the United States and Canada. Through extensive archival research, King and Hansen 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.
Paperback: 309 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (August 26, 2013)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1107659701
ISBN-13: 978-1107659704
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.6 x 9 inches
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Being part native American I heard stories from my fathers side. I never considered that all the way up to the 80's we forced sterilized people for there ethnic race, emotional content, or they were just poor. We fought a war against Nazi Germany yet as Hitler said "I got the idea from the Americans.) though not specified, it would never have occurred if 2 items was not in play. White Conservative, usually Rich and the church backed it. It forces you with facts to ask the question, were we any better than the Nazi's. You will see other books under the recommendation section. For a further complete study to include court cases, I recommend you review there recommendations. The past, the grand old past we want to believe in wasn't all that grand and I wonder, if we were Nazi lite.This book is an excellent stating off point for a dark and never asked chpt in our modern history. It forced me to ask the question if certain political parties/movements arenlt trying to bring back this dark chpt, this blight on our history and use the Holy word to do so.
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