| | Author: | Eugenics Record Office | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Eugenics Record Office Records
| | | | Dates: | 1670-1964 | | | | Abstract: | Eugenics was inevitably entangled in many aspects of American social and political life, and particularly in setting and supporting national policy with regard to immigration and the treatment of ethnic and racial minorities. The ERO Records reflect the eugenical fascination with identifying race-based traits and with locating clear lines of demarcation between the races in terms of behavior, intelligence, and physical characteristics. Race is a particularly clear factor in several files in the Trait Files Series I (documenting the inheritance of purportedly discrete genetic characteristics): "Jamaica anthropometry" (Box 4), "Race suicide and childlessness" (Box 7), "Twins, Negro" (Box 13), "Skin color," "Spotted skin," and "Mulattoes" (Box 26), "Finger prints - Jamaica schoolchildren" and "Woolly hair" (Box 27) and several files under the heading "Race," "Race crossing," and "Negro" (Box 61, 62, 64). The Fitter Family Studies (Series VI) displays an equal concern for racial demarcation, and include some correspondence with the Race Betterment Foundation. | | | | Call #: | Mss.Ms.Coll.77 | | | | Extent: | 330.5 Linear Feet | | | | |
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| | | Subjects: | Algonquin Indians | American Eugenics Society | Apache Indians | Aztecs. | Biology, genetics, eugenics | Carib Indians | Carnegie Institution of Washington | Carnegie Institution. Department of Genetics | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. | Cuna Indians | Davenport, Charles Benedict | Davenport, Charles Benedict, 1866-1944 | Eskimos | Eugenics | Eugenics Record Office | Evolution | Gelatin silver prints | Genetics | Heredity | Human genetics | Indians of Central America -- Panama | Laughlin, Harry Hamilton | Laughlin, Harry Hamilton, 1880 | Photomechanical prints | Plains Indians | Pueblo Indians | Race, race relations, racism | Sioux Nation | Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology. | Station for Experimental Evolution | |
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