Explores the connection between the United States eugenics program of the the early twentieth-century and the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany, citing proof that American scientists attempted to create a master race.

Product Description: Most closely associated with the Nazis and World War II atrocities, eugenics is sometimes described as a government-orchestrated breeding program, other times as a pseudo-science, and often as the first step leading to genocide.  Less frequently it is recognized as a movement having links to the United States...read more

For over a hundred years, psychologists and human biologists have been engaged in an often heated debate as to whether 'heredity' or 'environment' should be viewed as the determining factor in the creation of the human personality. For teachers and educationists, the discussion has tended to focus on how the human mind functions and intellectual powers develop. The controversy is often simply expressed in terms of 'nature' versus 'nurture,' with some scientists declaring that human beings are a product of a transaction between the two. To many, such enquiry and speculation is little more than futile and depressing. Yet it can surely be argued that at least with regard to the development of abilities, the 'nature' versus 'nurture' debate has had dire consequences for the education of millions of young people. Furthermore, we need to question why this debate has been pursued with such vigour in both Britain and America.

Product Description: This book tells the stranger-than-fiction story of how a poor white family from Indiana was scapegoated into prominence as America's "worst" family by the eugenics movement in the early twentieth century, then "reinvented" in the 1970s as part of a vanguard of social rebellion...read more

Traces the history of eugenics in the United States, from its origins in the early twentieth century, drawing on personal letters, diaries, and documents to chronicle the little-known quest for racial purity, the scientists who developed the theories and practices of eugenics, and the repercussions of a movement that resulted in the forced sterilization of more than 65,000 Americans. Reprint.

Traces the history of eugenics in the United States, from its origins in the early twentieth century, drawing on personal letters, diaries, and documents to chronicle the little-known quest for racial purity, the scientists who developed the theories and practices of eugenics, and the repercussions of a movement that resulted in the forced sterilization of more than 65,000 Americans. 20,000 first printing.

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Product Description: How could so many of America's educational, political and intellectual leaders have advocated such things as institutionalization, segregation and even sterilization of those with "inferior blood"? How could the racist notion of selective breeding and racial betterment have become an integral part of high school and college biology textbooks? In this work Stephen Selden tells the story of the eugenics movement in America during the early decades of the 20th century...read more

Product Description: Unlike other critiques of the scientific literature on racial difference, The Science and Politics of Racial Research argues that there has been no scientific purpose or value to the study of innate differences in ability between groups...read more

Product Description: Book by Reilly, Professor Philip