Eugenics in Practice

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Week 5: FIRST PAPER: Due by 9am Fri Mar 5, 2021: Eugenics in Practice  length 1000-words ±10%. TNR; 12-pt; double-spaced, single sides; page numbers and your name. Pay attention to footnoting and referencing. NB: Attach as a Word .doc, or otherwise editable paper. If it is a .pdf, you will get ZERO. (No one ever does not require their papers to be editable!). Your SUBJECT LINE is “[YOUR LAST NAME] HIS131:06 Paper1”   Required Reading: J. David Smith and Michael Wehmyer, “Who Was Deborah Kallikak?”, Intellect Dev Disabil. 50(2) (2012): 169–178; Charles Davenport, (1912) “The Nams: feeble-minded as country dwellers” American Philosophical Society, ERO, MSC77,Ser1,Box35: Trait Files. From http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/html/eugenics/static/images/352.html.; Peggy Pascoe, “The Facts of Race in the Courtroom.” In What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America (Oxford University press, 2010), chapter 4.    In a paper of ~1,000 words, Who were the real people that became the basis for American eugenics studies, and how were their stories fictionalized by eugenicists to justify their social theories?  Pick several examples of misogyny, racism, and classism demonstrated by these sources and explain (i.e. make an argument that explains the rationale) how these people were portrayed by eugenics theory. Why did they have to be fictionalized? How did these people resist eugenicists and the State? Optional Readings: General Texts on Eugenics include, Diane B. Paul, Controlling Human Heredity: 1865 to the Present (New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1995) and Philippa Levine, Eugenics: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2017). Peggy Pascoe, What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America (Oxford University press, 2010), Introduction.