The Rise of Eugenics in America
By the early 1900s, many white Americans embraced a pseudo-science called eugenics.
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The Rise of Eugenics in America
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By the early 1900s, many white Americans embraced a pseudo-science called eugenics.
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.
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The Rise of Eugenics in America
Clip: Episode 1 | 5m 54sVideo has Closed Captions
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.
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