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Daily Archives: August 7, 2011

The Eugenic Zombie in a Graveyard of Textbooks

Textbook HistoryBy Ronald LadouceurAugust 7, 20114 Comments

August 7, 2011 During the first decades of the twentieth century, WASP elites in the U.S. got themselves into quite a tizzy about sex and race. Metaphysical threats, like the death of “virgin forests,” the “darkening tide” of immigration and the dreaded “white plague” of Tuberculosis, combined with economic threats, like the new permanent income…

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