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Breeding Better Vermonters: The Eugenics Project in the Green Mountain State (Revisiting New England)

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Eugenics — the look at of human racial progress through selective breeding — continuously invokes images of social engineering, virulent racism, immigrant persecution, and Nazi genocide, but Vermont’s little known adventure in eugenics shows the inherent adaptability of eugenics theory and the right way to parochial social justice. Beginning with genealogies of Vermont’s rural poor within the 1920s, and concluding within the 1930s with an exposé of ethnic prejudice in Vermont’s largest city, this story of the Eugenics Survey of Vermont explores the scope, limits, and changing interpretations of eugenics in The usa and offers a new way to the history of progressive politics and social reform in New England.

Inspired and directed by Zoology Professor Henry F. Perkins, the survey, through social research, political agitation, and education campaigns, infused eugenic agendas into progressive programs for child welfare, mental health, and rural community development. Breeding Better Vermonters examines social, ethnic, and non secular tensions and reveals how population studies, theories of human heredity, and a rhetoric of altruism become subtle, yet powerful tools of social keep an eye on and exclusion in a state whose motto was once “freedom and unity.”

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