The Rise of Eugenics in America
Clip: Episode 1 | 5m 54s | Video has closed captioning.
By the early 1900s, many white protestant Americans came to fear they were about to be outnumbered and outbred by immigrants and their offspring. They embraced a new pseudo-science born in Britain, called eugenics. It falsely claimed you could eliminate everything from poverty and prostitution to disabilities if you stopped the individuals they dismissed as “socially defective” from reproducing.
Aired: 09/19/22
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