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Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s.(Book review)
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June 22, 2008
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Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s. Edited by Susan Currell and Christina Cogdell. (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2006, Pp. x, 406. $28.95.)
Historians of sexuality and biomedicine have recently revised the chronology of the American eugenics movement. Rather than narratives stressing the decline of scientific racism in the 1930s and the death of hereditarianism in the wake of Nazi atrocities, scholars have stressed the continuity of eugenic concerns in the pre- and post-1945 eras. The question about eugenics is no longer when or why it disappeared from the American landscape, but rather how its changing logic and location ...
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