Browsing by Subject "eugenics"
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(2015-03-26)Department: HistoryIn February 1939, the Birth Control Federation of America (BCFA) hired a registered nurse, Mildred Delp, and charged her with implementing a program to promote birth control among California’s migrant women. Over the next ...
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(2013-04-19)Department: HistoryThis study examines how African American intellectuals, many of them participants in the racial uplift movement, utilized the ideas of the eugenics movement as a strategy for the social, biological, and political improvement ...
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(2013-07-29)Department: EnglishThis thesis considers the function and purpose of propaganda across three notable moments in the career of W.E.B. Du Bois: his journalistic work for The Crisis, his sociological and curatorial work for the 1900 Paris ...
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(2016-07-27)Department: HistoryThis dissertation examines a century of biological and social scientific interest in four communities of presumed white, Indian, and African-American ancestry. Prior to the 1970s the Monacan Indians of Virginia, the ...