Eugenics Flashcards
What is eugenics?
the self direction of human evolution, breeding better babies, improving genetics
Who invented the dog whistle?
Francis Galton
What is Galton’s theory about ‘genuis’?
That it is hereditary
Who is Galtons famous cousin?
Charles Darwin
When did Galton publish “Hereditary Genuis”?
1869
What is race suicide?
If you cannot have children it is a misfortune, although if you ca have healthy well born babies and choose not to it is a crime for which you should be punished
What is negative Eugentics
the discouragement of having more children of a person deemed less desirable
Did Helen Keller support Eugenics
yes, along with John Kellogg’s, Alexander Graham Bell and Margaret Sanger
What is feeblemindedness?
Intellectual incapacity
Why were people sterilized?
For being inferior, disabled, feebleminded, criminalistic, insane, diseased, blind, deaf, deformed, homeless
What court case occurred in 1927, what happened?
Buck v. Bell, 17 year old girl raped, child born out of wedlock, deemed feebleminded and institutionalized because of rape, baby taken, she is forced to be sterilized
Who were the first victims of the holocaust?
Disabled children
Who were the undesirables, or people who were preferred to be sterilized?
Black woman, Mexicans, Asians, mentally ill, Native Americans, and promiscuous women
Who is Fannie Lou Hamer?
A civil rights activist, who was sterilized forcibly
