Popular Eugenics by Susan Currell
In a series of revealing essays, Popular Eugenics demonstrates that eugenic thought persisted in science and culture as well as in social policy and goes a long way toward explaining the durability of eugenic thinking and its effects on social policy in the United States.
Too often, popular culture historical topics receive a cursory glanceIn contrast, Popular Eugenics is able to tease out significant historical themes from targeted analyses.... the book should be lauded for giving equal time to visual culture as it does to written culture. * Journalism History *
This fascinating collection on eugenics during the 1930s offers a vantage point on ‘ordinary eugenics.’... Their most provocative argument is that the ubiquity of eugenics in mass culture may be the most important explanation for why draconian policies attracted widespread support during the New Deal. * The Historian *
Currell and Cogdell do a wonderful job of showcasing the complexity of the eugenic movement during the 1930s. More importantly, they do a service to readers by showing that even as eugenicists endured a widening public critique, they never lost their general sense of racial and class superiority or bias. * Indiana Magazine of History *
This fascinating collection on eugenics during the 1930s offers a vantage point on ‘ordinary eugenics.’... Their most provocative argument is that the ubiquity of eugenics in mass culture may be the most important explanation for why draconian policies attracted widespread support during the New Deal. * The Historian *
Currell and Cogdell do a wonderful job of showcasing the complexity of the eugenic movement during the 1930s. More importantly, they do a service to readers by showing that even as eugenicists endured a widening public critique, they never lost their general sense of racial and class superiority or bias. * Indiana Magazine of History *
Susan Currell is a lecturer in American literature at the University of Sussex and the author of The March of Spare Time.
Christina Cogdell is the author of Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780821416921 |
| ISBN 10 | 0821416928 |
| Title | Popular Eugenics |
| Author | Susan Currell |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Ohio University Press |
| Year published | 2006-11-21 |
| Number of pages | 424 |
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