The timeline below shows where the term Eugenics appears in How to Be an Antiracist. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 4: Biology
...religion. Still, Europeans argued that they were the most evolved branch of humanity. Scientists promoted eugenics, or selective breeding to promote white genes and eliminate non-white genes. This was the foundation...
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Chapter 8: Behavior
...history of standardized taking makes this all the more clear. In the early 20th century, eugenicist scientists developed IQ tests in the hopes of demonstrating that different racial groups had different...
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Chapter 10: White
...(NOI) leader Elijah Muhammad, who argued that an evil Black scientist created white people through eugenics thousands of years ago, before Moses civilized the white “devil race” and they managed to...
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Chapter 14: Gender
...also fight sexism, and vice versa. Kendi offers some examples of gendered racism: for instance, eugenicist doctors sterilized hundreds of thousands of Black women in the 20th century. Today, Black and...
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