This book inspired many eugenics programs that took place in the 20th century, including the ones in Nazi Germany.
Who wrote this? No other than the founding president of Stanford University, David Starr Jordan. From California.
You would expect Americans at the time to be horrified by this book? Not precisely. He received honorary degrees by multiple American universities, and he has a plethora of things named in his honor.
And we could be talking about this all day. The US is also responsible for the mass sterilization of Latinas, with a special emphasis in Puerto Rico. By 1965, 34% of Puerto Rican women aged 20–49 had been sterilized.
What fewer people is aware of is that the US has a prominent historic role when it comes to the "development" of eugenics.
Let's take this horrible book, for example... "The blood of the nation: A study of the decay of the races through the survival of the unfit":
https://archive.org/details/bloodofnationstu00jorduoft/page/...
This book inspired many eugenics programs that took place in the 20th century, including the ones in Nazi Germany.
Who wrote this? No other than the founding president of Stanford University, David Starr Jordan. From California.
You would expect Americans at the time to be horrified by this book? Not precisely. He received honorary degrees by multiple American universities, and he has a plethora of things named in his honor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Starr_Jordan#Monuments_a...
And we could be talking about this all day. The US is also responsible for the mass sterilization of Latinas, with a special emphasis in Puerto Rico. By 1965, 34% of Puerto Rican women aged 20–49 had been sterilized.
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