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This volume assesses the history of eugenics in the United States and its status in the age of the Human Genome Project. The essays explore the early support of

During the first half of the twentieth century, supporters of the eugenics movement offered an image of a racially transformed America by curtailing the reprodu

"In Search of Purity: Eugenics and Racial Uplift among New Negroes, 1915-1935" is a dissertation that examines the reinterpretation of eugenic theories by Black

In 1997 Eugenics and the Welfare State caused an uproar with international repercussions. This edition contains a new introduction by Broberg and Roll-Hansen, a