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SUMMARY:Black eugenics and the politics of reproduction - Ayah Nuriddin (P
 rinceton University)
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CONTACT:Salim Al-Gailani
DESCRIPTION:During the early twentieth century\, African Americans of vary
 ing social strata began to embrace the racial possibilities of eugenics. I
 n response to a prevalent narrative of black victimization in the historio
 graphy of eugenics\, I argue that they mobilized what I call black eugenic
 s\, which I define as a hereditarian approach to racial uplift that emphas
 ized social reform\, public health\, and reproductive control as strategie
 s of biological racial improvement. \n\nBlack eugenics emerged from a long
 er tradition of black political organizing for racial equality and the beg
 innings of black engagement with medicine and science as a result of great
 er educational opportunities after Reconstruction. Black eugenics allowed 
 African Americans to challenge assumptions about the inferiority of black 
 bodies. They used targeted reproduction and public health programs in resp
 onse to the medical problems that were used to justify racial discriminati
 on. Using African American newspapers\, medical journals\, and archival ma
 terial\, this talk will show the ways in which that African Americans resp
 ond to\, reinterpret\, and critique the scientific racism embedded within 
 the eugenics movement as part of a larger discourse of black eugenics.  \n
 \n"Register for this seminar":https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ayah-nuriddinge
 neration-to-reproduction-seminarcambridge-tickets-238372567767
LOCATION:Zoom
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