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The hour of eugenics : race, gender, and nation in Latin America /
Eugenics was a term coined in 1883 to name the scientific and social theory which advocated "race improvement" through selective human breeding. In Europe and the United States the eugenics movement found many supporters before it was finally discredited by its association with the racist...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
1996.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments ; Introduction: Science and Social Knowledge ; 1. The New Genetics and the Beginnings of Eugenics ; 2. Eugenics in Latin America: Its Origins and Institutional Ecology ; 3. Racial Poisons and the Politics of Heredity in Latin America in the 1920s ; 4. ""Matrimonial Eugenics"": Gender and the Construction of Negative Eugenics; 5. National Identities and Racial Transformations ; 6. U.S., Pan American, and Latin Visions of Eugenics ; 7. Conclusion: Science and the Politics of Interpretation ; Index.