Featured image: The Eugenics Record Office, in the 1920s, on Long Island.
BOOKS
Lee D. Baker. From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954.
Lee D. Baker. Anthropology and the Racial Politics of Culture.
Andrew D. Evans. Anthropology at War: World War I and the Science of Race in Germany.
Marilyn Lake & Henry Reynolds. Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men’s Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality.
Daniel Okrent. The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of America.
Alexandra Minna Stern. Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America.
Alexandra Minna Stern. Telling Genes: The Story of Genetic Counseling in America.
ARTICLES
American Public Health Association: Disproportionate Sterilization of Latinos Under California’s Eugenic Sterilization Program, 1920–1945.
Alexandra Fair: Situating Standpoint Magazine: Conservative Journalism and Eugenic Ideology.
Alexandra Fair: Eugenics and the Modern Conservative Movement.
Justin Gomer & Christopher Petrella: Black Protest, White Backlash, and the History of Scientific Racism.
Linda Gordon: The Last Time a Wall Went Up to Keep Out Immigrants.
Joshua A. Krisch: Haunted Files: The Eugenics Record Office.
Natalie Lira and Alexandra Minna Stern: Mexican Americans and Eugenic Sterilization: Resisting Reproductive Injustice.
Mike McPhate: California Today: Wrestling With a Legacy of Eugenics.
Honor Sachs: The dark side of our genealogy craze.
Matthew A. Sears: Aristotle, father of scientific racism: How the famous philosopher paved the way for books like “The Bell Curve.”
Kim Severson: North Carolina: Budget Pays Eugenics Victims.
Sterilization and Social Justice Lab: tons of articles on the history of sterilization, especially in California.
Alexandra Minna Stern: Clarence Thomas’ Linking Abortion to Eugenics Is as Inaccurate as It Is Dangerous.
Alexandra Minna Stern: STERILIZED in the Name of Public Health: Race, Immigration, and Reproductive Control in Modern California.
Christopher D. E. Willoughby: White supremacy was at the core of 19th-century science. Why that matters today.
VIDEOS AND PODCASTS
Disability History Association Podcast: California’s Eugenic Sterilization Program.
Matthew Frye Jacobson:
- Science, Race and Immigration.
- Race and Ethnicity: Who’s Who and What’s What?
- Goddard, Race and Intelligence (Part One)
- Goddard, Race and Intelligence (Part Two).
- Franz Boas Takes On The Eugenicists.
NPR:
- How A Family Became A Test Case For Forced Sterilizations
- On A ‘Eugenics Registry,’ A Record Of California’s Thousands Of Sterilizations.
- The Supreme Court Ruling That Led To 70,000 Forced Sterilizations.
- The Complicated Relationship Between Puerto Rico And U.S. Mainland. (About medical experimentations on Puerto Ricans.)
- Eugenics, Anti-Immigration Laws Of The Past Still Resonate Today.
Alexandra Minna Stern: The History of the US Eugenics Movement.