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5 Cs of History

The Controversial Life and Legacy of Margaret Sanger

There are few individuals in American history with as divided a legacy as Margaret Sanger. For many, she was a pioneer of women’s health, an important birth control activist, and founder of Planned Parenthood. For others, Sanger represents the immorality of feminism and insidious evil of reproductive choice. Yet others Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 1 week1 day ago
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Bodies

A History of Racial Passing in the United States

Late in 2020, a number of white academics were revealed to be passing as people of color, making the concept of racial passing a matter of national conversation. For these white folks, the benefits of being considered a person of color were based on a perception that minorities somehow have Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 2 years1 year ago
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Eugenics

Life Unworthy of Life: The Nazi Programs to Kill People with Disabilities

At the beginning of the 20th century, eugenics – the belief that the human population could be manipulated through selective breeding – was on the cutting-edge of modern science. Following the example set by American eugenic sterilization and anti-miscegenation laws, and empowered by the rise of the ultra ethno-nationalist Nazi Read more…

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 4 years1 year ago
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Eugenics

Choice, Sterilization, and Eugenics in Twentieth Century Puerto Rico

In 1968, researchers found that one-third of all Puerto Rican women of childbearing age were surgically sterilized. This ignited the U.S. reproductive rights movement and the political demand to end forced sterilization in Puerto Rico. However, Puerto Rican women’s reproduction has been tied to identity and nationalism since the United Read more…

By Elizabeth Garner Masarik, 4 years1 year ago
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Eugenics

At the Crossroads of Modernity: Japan, the Blood-Type Fad, and Eugenic Science in the 20th Century

If you are stumbling on this episode because you are someone obsessed with Japanese culture, then you probably already know about the blood-type fad that leaves poor Type-Bs at the bottom of the dating pool. What you may not already know, however, is how Japan developed that particular discrimination premise Read more…

By Averill Earls, 4 years1 year ago
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Eugenics

Eugenics in the Making: Human Typologies, Population Hygiene, and Racial Science in the 18th Century

By the 19th Century, the European public had been engaging in scientific debate for decades, gathering exotic curiosities, and energetically pursuing the secrets of life. At the same time, they enslaved millions of Africans, profited from the exploitation of their labor, along with that of American Indians and Chinese coolies, Read more…

By Marissa Rhodes, 4 years1 year ago
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Sex

Marie Stopes: Married Sexual Pleasure, Birth Control and Eugenics

Marie Stopes was one of the most significant figures in the modern birth control movement. She founded 37 international family planning clinics and brought sexual knowledge and fulfillment to countless women around the world. She was also a complex and complicated figure in the women’s rights and eugenics movement. We Read more…

By Averill Earls, 6 years2 years ago
Episode

Huddled Masses: Unwanted Immigrants in the Americas

For hundreds of years, governments have been drawing a line in the sand between the wanted citizenry and the unwanted potential citizenry.

By Sarah Handley-Cousins, 6 years5 years ago
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