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Section Overview - Race and Membership
Beauty, Difference, and Notions of What is “Normal”
Beyond Classification
Ranking Humankind
FEATURED TOPIC: Science, Skulls, and Mustard Seeds
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Social Darwinism
Galton and the Definition of Eugenics
Topic Overview: Samuel Morton
Simulation of Morton's Technique for Measuring Skulls
Scientific Racism: Stephen Jay Gould's Analysis
Galton and the Definition of Eugenics
Section Overview -- Eugenics in the United States
Persuasion and Propaganda
FEATURED TOPIC: IQ Testing
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Anti-miscegenation Laws
Education
Immigration
Sterilization
IQ Testing and Social Policy: Overview
Exercise: Take the Test
Education
Multiple Intelligences
Section Overview
Racial Hygiene and World War I
Antisemitism, Eugenics, and German Jews
The American Connection
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The American Connection
Link 1: Lothrop Stoddard
Link 2: The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
Link 3: The KWI and the ERO
Link 4: German Praise for the 1924 National Origins Act
Link 5: References in
Mein Kampf
Link 6: Eugen Fischer and Paul Popenoe
Section Overview
"The Law for the Prevention of Hereditarily Diseased Offspring"
Targeting Jews and Other "Racial Enemies"
The Role of Propaganda
From Sterilization to Murder
"Where is This Path Taking Us?"
The American Connection
Rethinking Eugenics
