Eugenic Nation

by Stern, Alexandra Minna

  and heredityn. See also environmentalism; suburbia; urban planning

  environmentalism

  Burbank

  California

  eugenic

  Goethe and

  modern movement

  racist. See also parks; preservationists; Sierra Club

  epilepsy

  epistasis

  Eradicating Plague from San Francisco (Todd)

  Essays in Eugenics (Galton)

  ethnic nationalism

  Eugenical News

  Eugenical Sterilization in the United States (Laughlin)

  eugenic racism

  and environmentalism

  exclusionary

  Haynes Foundation and

  of miscegenation laws

  scientific racism

  sexism exchanged for. See also degenerationism

  race betterment

  stereotypes, racial

  eugenics

  critics

  defined

  differential fecundity

  emergence of

  environmentalist

  exclusionary

  family

  global

  good vs. bad

  historiography

  mainline

  negative

  positive

  PPIE

  public hygiene-based

  reform

  registry

  University of California. See also border quarantines; eugenic racism; race betterment; U.S. eugenics movement

  Eugenics (AES journal)

  Eugenics Publishing Company, New York

  Eugenics Quarterly

  Eugenics Record Office (ERO)

  Carnegie sponsoring

  CBJR and

  closure (1940)

  Eugenics Research Association

  Jordan

  Laughlin as superintendent

  Popenoe and. See also Davenport, Charles B.

  Eugenics Research Association

  Eugenics Section, CCC

  dissolution

  Goethe cofounding

  Haynes

  HBF and

  Home Problems Section absorbing

  for immigration restrictions

  Popenoe and

  and sterilizations

  Terman and

  Eugenics Society of Northern California (ESNC)

  Europeans: Caucasian racial category

  “desirable”

  “undesirable”. See also Anglo-Saxons; Eastern Europeans; France; Germany; Nordics; Southern Europeans

  Euthanasia Society of America

  euthenics

  evolutionism

  biotypology and

  environmentalism and

  Goethe

  Jordan

  Terman

  Vollmer. See also social Darwinism

  exclusions: eugenic. See also deportations; elimination of unfit; eugenic racism; immigration laws and restrictions vs. “undesirables”; racism; segregation

  extermination campaigns: Nazi Holocaust/Final Solution. See also elimination of unfit

  Fairchild, David

  Fallen Leaf Lake, near Lake Tahoe

  family: better babies contests

  Cold War era norms

  containment doctrine

  dysfunctional

  eugenic

  family reunification model

  family values politics

  male-female dichotomy

  Mexican family size

  Mexicans as good parents

  nuclear model

  pedigree charts

  Popenoe and

  protest movements (1960s–1970s)

  reconstituting

  veneration of parenthood. See also children; family planning; marriage; motherhood

  Family Life

  family planning

  federal funding

  Goethe booklets

  male control over

  population planning linked with

  positive eugenics

  racial ideologies

  selective breeding

  sterilization abuse. See also American Institute of Family Relations (AIFR)

  birth control

  birth rate

  marital counseling

  Planned Parenthood

  population planning

  Family Planning Services and Population Research Act (1970)

  fascism. See also Nazism

  federal funding: nonconsensual sterilizations

  PPIE and

  stem cell research

  Federation for American Immigration Reform

  feebleminded

  futility of breeding out

  IQ

  marriage laws

  Men-delianism and

  Nebraska registration of

  sterilization of. See also mental retardation; morons

  The Feminine Mystique (Friedan)

  feminists

  and artificial insemination

  and birth control

  Chicana

  and Freudianism

  and marital counseling

  Media Women

  vs. medical establishment

  Popenoe and

  Puerto Rican

  second-wave

  and sterilizing

  nonconsensually

  voluntary sterilization requirements

  white. See also sexism

  Fenton, Norman

  Figueroa, Rebecca

  Filipinos: California racism vs.. See also Philippines

  Final Solution/Holocaust. See also Nazism

  Finlay, Carlos

  Follett, Charlie

  Footnotes to Evolution (Jordan, ed.)

  footprints

  forced sterilizations. See nonconsensual sterilizations

  Founders Tree

  “Fountain of Energy” PPIE

  France: Panama Canal Zone

  Ungemach Gardens

  Fraser, James Earle

  free speech

  Freudianism, sexual

  Friday Morning Club

  Friedan, Betty

  frigidity, women’s

  frontier thesis. See also pioneer stock

  fumigations: Mexican border. See also delousing; disinfection

  fundamentalists, Christian

  The Future of Human Heredity (Frederick Osborn)

  Galton, Sir Francis

  Garden of Eden trope

  Garis, Roy L.

  Garth, Thomas R.

  gay and lesbian liberationists. See also homosexuality

  gender

  biotypology and

  and Border Patrol

  containment doctrine

  double standard

  juvenile rehabilitation programs

  male-female dichotomy

  norms

  population control and

  protest movements (1960s–1970s)

  reconditioning

  and sexual surgeries

  temperament

  testing and. See also boys; feminists; girls; marriage; men; patriarchy; sexism; sexuality; women

  Genentech

  genes: dominant

  recessive

  genetic counseling

  first centers

  vs. interracial marriage

  middle-class Americans. See also marital counseling

  genetics

  commercialized

  criminality

  disease

  homosexuality

  intelligence

  medical

  mental disease

  modern. See also genetic counseling; genetic testing

  Mendelianism

  genetic testing. See also genetic counseling

  genocide

  genomes, human

  genotype

  Geogardening (Goethe)

  Georgia: Center for Behavior Change

  voluntary sterilization laws

  Germany: Archiv für Soziale Hygiene und Demographie

  Jews medicalized in
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  marital clinics

  sterilization law. See also Nazism

  germ cells

  germ plasm

  Mexican

  pacifism and

  Southern European

  sterilization eliminating

  germ theories

  Geron and StemCells, Inc.

  Gesell, Gerhard

  gifted children

  girls: California state institutions

  delinquent

  IQ testing

  sterilized

  trapped in puberty

  globalism: of eugenics

  Nordic dominance. See also internationalism

  Goddard, Henry H.

  Goethe, Charles M.

  Bishton and

  death

  economics

  environmentalism

  Geogardening

  C. M. Goethe Arboretum at CSUS

  HBF

  and immigration restrictions

  marriage with Mary Gliden

  May Second Committee protest vs.

  and place-names

  Popenoe and

  positive eugenics

  PPIE

  redwood memorial groves

  and Sacramento playgrounds

  Seeking to Serve

  and sterilizations

  typhus story

  War Profits and Better Babies

  What’s in a Name?

  What Will Your Greatgrandchildren Face?

  and Yosemite

  Gold Rush

  gold tax

  Gorgas, William C.

  Gosney, Ezra S.

  Goethe and

  HBF

  Laughlin and

  Popenoe and

  Sterilization for Human Betterment (with Popenoe)

  and sterilizations of prisoners

  Government Accounting Office

  Grant, Joseph D.

  Grant, Madison

  environmentalism

  Madison Grant Forest and Elk Refuge

  Great Depression: deportations

  Goethe investments

  marital problems

  public works projects

  sterilizations

  Greeks, immigrants

  greenbelts

  El Grito

  Guam, American colonialism

  Guerin, James

  Guildford’s S.T.D.C.R. Test

  gyotometer

  Hale, Reuben B.

  Hamer, Fannie Lou

  Hamilton, H. J.

  Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium principle

  Harriman, Mrs. E. H.

  Hart-Celler Act (1965)

  Hartzog, George B. Jr.

  Hatch, F. W.

  Hawai’i

  Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty (1903)

  Haynes, Dora

  Haynes, John R.

  Eugenics Section of CCC

  foundation

  and Friday Morning Club

  and sterilization

  Hayward, Susan

  HBF. See Human Betterment Foundation (HBF)

  health care: community health centers

  feminist activism. See also disease

  medicine

  public health

  Health Research Group, Washington, D.C.

  Hearst, Phoebe Apperson

  hereditarianism

  contesting

  environment and

  strict. See also genetics; Mendelianism

  Heredity, Race, and Society (Dunn and Dobzhansky)

  Hernández, Antonia

  Hernandez v. Texas (1954)

  Herrnstein, Richard, The Bell Curve

  HEW (U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare)

  historiography: eugenics

  New Western

  Hitler, Adolph. See also Nazism

  Hogue, Fred

  Hoisholt, A. W.

  holism, constitutional

  Hollywood, marital counseling and

  Hollywood Citizen News

  Holmes, Samuel J.

  vs. Mexicans;

  “Perils of the Mexican Invasion”

  Holocaust/Final Solution. See also Nazism

  Home Front Commandos, anti-Japanese

  homosexuality

  AIFR and

  gay and lesbian liberationists

  prisons

  reconditioning

  sterilization for

  testing

  Hrdlicka, Alès

  Human Betterment Foundation (HBF)

  Goethe

  Gosney

  Haynes

  Hogue and

  Popenoe

  sterilization promoted by

  Terman

  Vruwink

  Human Genome Project

  humanism, postwar

  Humm-Wadsworth Temperament Scale

  Hunt, Thomas

  Huntington, Archer M.

  Huntington, Ellsworth

  Huntington’s disease

  Hurley, John

  Hutchinson, Woods

  hybridization: Anglo-Saxons

  plant

  world

  hygiene: personal

  public

  racial. See also delousing; disease; disinfection; fumigations; public health; tropical medicine

  hyphenates

  hysterectomies, elective

  idealist Progressives

  idiots: IQ

  marriage laws

  sterilization. See also morons

  immigrants: public health concerns with

  sterilization proportions

  welfare recipients. See also Asians; Europeans; immigration laws and restrictions vs. “undesirables”; Mexicans; xenophobia

  Immigration Bureau

  immigration laws and restrictions vs. Mexicans

  before

  Border Patrol

  border quarantines

  deportations

  as germ plasm pollution

  as hyperbreeders

  “Mexican problem”

  Proposition 187 (1994)

  quotas. See also Mexican stereotypes

  immigration laws and restrictions vs. “undesirables”

  Asians

  degenerationism and

  environmentalist

  Europeans (Southern and Eastern)

  as germ plasm pollution

  Goethe and

  Jordan and

  negative eugenics

  quotas

  Walter-McCarran. See also deportations; exclusions; immigration laws and restrictions vs. Mexicans; Johnson-Reed Immigration Act (1924)

  Immigration Study Commission (ISC)

  immorality: futility of breeding out. See also criminality

  imperialism: Nazi Germany

  U.S. See also colonialism

  Inca high castes, extinction of

  incomplete dominance

  independent living movement

  India: birth control activities

  sterilizations

  Indiana, sterilization law

  Indianapolis News

  Indian Health Service

  informed consent protocols

  insanity

  marriage

  laws

  sterilization

  youth. See also psychology

  institutions. See state institutions

  insulin shock

  intelligence tests/intelligence quotient (IQ)

  Army Alpha and Beta tests

  bilingual

  Binet-Simon mental test

  California public schools

  critics

  English literacy and

  invention of IQ

  Mexicans

  National Intelligence Test

  racist

  Scholastic Achievement Test (SAT)

  Stanford-Binet intelligence test

  and sterilization

  Terman

  Vollmer and

  youth. See also mental retardation; psychometrics

  internationalism. See also globalism; universalism
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  interpretative parks movement

  interracial marriage: laws against

  marital and genetic counseling vs.

  Mexican association with disease and

  intersexuality

  introversion-extroversion, Neymann-Kohlstedt Scale for

  involuntary sterilizations. See nonconsensual sterilizations

  Iowa, sterilization law

  Isthmian Canal Commission

  It Ain’t Me Babe magazine

  Italians, IQ

  IUD

  Japanese: California exclusions of

  Home Front Commandos vs.

  school segregation

  Jay, Karla

  Jenkins, Thomas

  Jennings, Herbert S.

  Jews: German medicalization of

  Holocaust/Final Solution

  xenophobia vs.

  Jim Crow segregation

  Johannsen, Wilhelm

  Johnson, Albert

  Johnson, Hiram

  Johnson, Lyndon

  Johnson, Roswell

  Johnson-Reed Immigration Act (1924): Border Patrol and

  Goethe and

  and IQ testing

  Laughlin and

  as National Origins Act

  quotas set by

  Johnson Temperament Analysis Test (JTA): AIFR

  Christian fundamentalists using

  Popenoe using

  revised as Taylor-Johnson Temperament Test (T-JTA)

  and women’s frigidity

  Jordan, David Starr

  Battle Creek Sanitarium

  California and the Californians

  The Days of Man

  environmentalism

  and ERO

  Eugenics Section of CCC

  Footnotes to Evolution (ed.)

  Goethe and

  HBF

  vs. Mexicans as irresponsible breeders

  Mount Jordan

  pacifism

  Popenoe and

  PPIE

  scientific racism

  Journal of Delinquency

  Journal of Heredity

  Journal of Juvenile Research

  Journal of the American Medical Association

  Joy Zone, PPIE

  justice system. See courts; criminality; juvenile justice system; laws; police departments

  juvenile courts

  juvenile justice system

  youth in state institutions. See also delinquency, juvenile; juvenile courts

  juvenile research. See also delinquency, juvenile; intelligence tests/intelligence quotient (IQ)

  KABC radio, Los Angeles

  The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness (Goddard)

  karyotype analysis

  Kegel, Arnold

  Kegels

  Kellogg, John Harvey

  Kellogg, Vernon

  Kent, William

  Kent-Rosanoff Test

  Kimmell, Mrs. Leslie F.

  “Kinder, Küche, Kirche as Scientific Law: Psychology Constructs the Female” (Weisstein)

  Kinsey, Alfred

  Kitzhaber, John

  Kluttz, W. C.

  Koch, Robert

  Koedt, Anne

  Kohler, Mary Conway

  labor: African American

  agricultural

  Haynes’s Los Angeles

  World War II and. See also vocational tracking; working class

  Ladies’ Home Journal (LHJ): feminist sit-in

  Popenoe’s “Can This Marriage Be Saved” column

  Lamarck, Jean Baptiste de. See also neo-Lamarckism

  landscape: American West. See also environmentalism