![]() ![]() Throughout the first SIX decades of the 20th century, hundreds of thousands of US citizens were forcibly sterilized on the grounds that they were "unfit." (where unfit might mean: mentally slow, physically disabled, black, jewish, or more likely, just plain poor). moreīlack details the frightening and unfamiliar story of American (that's right, American) eugenics. And it is something we may never escape.īlog | Goodreads | Twitter | Youtube. ![]() History is not one faraway thing it is a continuum, an endless repeating cycle. There’s one final question: did you know from 2006-2010 in California, 148 mentally ill women were sterilized by state mental hospitals without their consent? In my state, in my lifetime, 148 women were violated by the state. After all, we aren’t in the 1960s.īut those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. All I want to say is this:ĭid you know that from 1930-1960 in America, 64,000 individuals were forcibly sterilized under state-sanctioned programs? That several mental health institutes purposefuly fed their prisoners toberculosis-infected milk upon admission, killing 40% of their patients? That these same eugenics programs served as inspiration for the Holocaust? That they were performed almost entirely on mentally ill women and women of color? These facts may seem painful. All I want to say is this: Did you know that from 1930-1960 in America, 64,000 individuals were forcibly sterilized under state-sanctioned programs? That several mental health institutes purposefuly fed their prisoners toberculosis-infected milk upon admission, killing 40% of their patients? That these same eugenics programs served as inspiration for the Holocaust? That they were performed almost entirely on mentally ill women and women of color? These facts m I don't want to leave a review here. This is a timely and shocking chronicle of bad science at its worst-with many important lessons for the genetic age in which an interest in eugenics has been dangerously revived.more Ultimately, over 60,000 "unfit" Americans were coercively sterilized, a third of them after Nuremberg had declared such practices crimes against humanity. states, while the supporters of eugenics included progressive thinkers like Woodrow Wilson, Margaret Sanger and Oliver Wendell Holmes. ![]() Cruel and racist laws were enacted in 27 U.S. Based on selective breeding of human beings, eugenics began in laboratories on Long Island but ended in the concentration camps of Nazi Germany. Cruel and ra In War against the Weak, award-winning investigative journalist Edwin Black traces some of the Nazis' most horrendous crimes back to Charles Davenport's early 20th-century pseudoscientific eugenics movement in the US. In War against the Weak, award-winning investigative journalist Edwin Black traces some of the Nazis' most horrendous crimes back to Charles Davenport's early 20th-century pseudoscientific eugenics movement in the US. ![]()
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