This work examines the evolution of eugenic ideology in South Carolina during the Progressive Era by following relevant discussions published in The State newspaper. Between 1891 and 1939, The State newspaper provided a platform for discussions about eugenic ideology to be disse…
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The American Eugenics Movement occurred within several decades of the twentieth century, and the perception of it as a solely race-based movement has been generally accepted. However, while eugenics utilized racism later against Black and Brown minorities, other methods of repre…
The United States is often painted as the ‘Nation of Immigrants,’ with an open-door policy where anyone can come to achieve the American Dream with a little hard work. For most of American history, this has not been the case. Immigration restriction has been the way the United S…
This thesis is a study of the influence and effects that the United States had upon Germany from the rise of eugenics to its fall following the end of World War II. There are three stages to this study. First, I examine the rise of eugenics in the United States from its inceptio…
William Faulkner’s Snopes trilogy (comprised of The Hamlet, The Town, and The Mansion) follows the rise of the Snopeses, an impoverished white family that moves into Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, and begins to replace the area’s aristocrats. It is remarkably easy to read th…
How did eugenics go from an idea in Britain to a movement in America? That was the question this dissertation originally set out to answer. Also, of interest was how the theory of eugenics went from the fringes to becoming mainstream. Who were the key figures in this transatlant…
This thesis is a study of the influence and effects that the United States had upon Germany from the rise of eugenics to its fall following the end of World War II. There are three stages to this study. First, I examine the rise of eugenics in the United States from its inceptio…
This research examines the history of the North American deaf community over the past century and how the influence of Alexander Graham Bell, eugenics, and Oralism shaped the course of deaf history. Through the control of social, political, and education policies, the hearing pu…
First, the breakdown of hegemony and the creation of “race” must be explored before moving onto the branching facets of commodified colored figures: Entertainment, Labor, Sexuality. Western societies' basic understanding of race is laced with phenotypical notions. The term itsel…
“Eugenic Discourse: Reproduction, Disability, and Literature in Twentieth-Century America” assesses historical and literary scholarship on the American Eugenics Movement as well as related figures, texts, and events. From an interdisciplinary perspective inspired by intersection…
The historical narrative of eugenics often focuses on those eugenic societies and movements that ‘succeeded’ in part or in full in achieving a eugenic society. Less studied are those societies that failed, whether due to social backlash or internal incoherence. The British Eugen…
The Lost Cause ideology of the Civil War has created a distorted collective memory that established a pattern of lawful inequality and disenfranchisement that continues to exist today. The distortion of the legacy of the Confederacy was planted with heritage, honor, and patrioti…
The increasing understanding of genetics, advancement of genetic/genomic technologies, and availability of genetic/genomic testing have increased the demand for genetic counselors and resulted in a significant growth and expansion of our profession. While coursework on genetics/…
This study investigates the use of coded racism in the evolution of fertility control policies from the 1920s to the 1990s. I propose a theory of welfare eugenics that explains stigmatization of the fertility of poor, racial and ethnic minorities through a re-articulation of ove…
The dissertation examines the development of assisted reproduction in American medicine and culture between the first reported use of artificial insemination in the late eighteenth century and the birth of the modern cryobanking industry at the end of the twentieth century. It f…
The accepted version of the history of eugenics - put forward by Kevles, Allen and Barkan amongst others - is that the example of Nazi eugenics contributed to the decline of the eugenics movement in the USA. This dissertation challenges that view and argues that Nazism was irrel…
The American woman is the leader of the awakened social conscience in a country-wide crusade to build a better race, declared Progressive reformer Mabel Potter Daggett in 1912.\sp1 Between 1900 and 1960, this "country-wide crusade" to strengthen family and civilization by regula…
Managing Death: Diagnosing the "New " Eugenics in Canadian Legal Discourses and Narratives of Disability, examines how three twentieth-century Canadian legal cases---Henry Morgentaler, Sue Rodriguez, and Robert Latimer---inform and problematize Canada's concept of itself as a li…