1. Eugenics

2. RACE Race Where did race come from? How has race changed over time?
a : a family, tribe, people, or nation belonging to the same stock
b : a class or kind of people unified by shared interests, habits, or characteristics
WEBSTERS Dictionary
Where did race come from?
How has race changed over time?

3. Federal Government’s definitions
American Indian or Alaskan Native. A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintains tribal affiliation or community recognition.
Asian. A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Black or African American. A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. Terms such as "Haitian" or "Negro" can be used in addition to "Black or African American."
Hispanic or Latino. A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture of origin, regardless of race. The term "Spanish origin" can be used in addition to "Hispanic or Latino.”
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander. A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands.
White. A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.

4. Define Eugenics
If you had a baby or could manipulate your own genes to control/stop/increase the following would you? WHY/WHY NOT?
Disease
Intelligence
Athletic ability
Criminal behavior
Alcoholism

5. What kind of society do you want to live in?
What was this about?
Why does Iceland have such a low birthrate for Down Syndrome?
What are the arguments 1. FOR and 2. AGAINST getting screened for potential birth defects?
Would you want to get tested? Why or why not?
Do you agree with Dr. Olafsdottir that abortion isn’t murder, that “life is grey”? Why or why not?
Are health concerns for the mother or baby a legitimate reason to get an abortion? Are there ever legitimate reasons?

6. Traits Help each other identify the traits on the sheet.
Add up each column at the bottom.

7. Is Personality Inherited or is it Environment?
70% of European descent can left handed 10% Studies personality is 40-50% inherited
Is Personality Inherited or is it Environment?

8. Depends on where you live. Higher attached in asia

9. Left over 55%

10. Right over 55%

11. Tented Arch Whorl Arch Loop
Tented- less than 1% Whorl % Arch 5% Loop 60-70%
Arch
Loop

12. Brown- 55%. Blue 8%. Hazel 5-8%. Green 2%
Brown- 55%. Blue 8%. Hazel 5-8% Green 2% Silver/grey/amber –less than 1%

13. More common in women. Hard to define what is and what isnt

15. Traits Why are traits so important?
What problems can arise from people’s physical differences?
Can you think of examples in history where physical traits were looked at as being superior or inferior?

16. Who do you trust? Where would you rank the above? Why?
Politicians
Police
Teachers
Doctors
Lawyers
Scientists
Where would you rank the above? Why?
What is more powerful: something visual or written? Why?

17. Rank the following people in these categories
Blacks Hispanics Whites NA’s Asians
SPORTS/ATHLETIC ABILITY
INTELLIGENCE
ETHICS/MORALS

18. QUESTIONS? Would you rather be : SICK OR HEALTHY DUMB OR INTELLIGENT
BAD OR GOOD
WEAK OR STRONG

19. Ranking Humankind
What was going on in the world to lead to rankings? Enlightenment
Linnaeus (1730’s)
1.European-pale, clever, inventive
2. NA- red, eager, passionate
3. Asiatic- yellow, inflexible, severe
4. African- black, slow, negligent
Blumenbach (1795)
1. Negro
2. Mongolian
3. Malay
4. American Indian
5.Caucasian

20. Ranking Humankind Camper Monogenesis (DEFINE)
Outer state reflected inner state
Ranked people using past Greeks and Romans as ideal
100 degree angle
Europeans 90 degrees
Africans 70 degrees
PROBLEMS?

21. Science and Prejudice POLYGENESIS
What did Morton believe about brain size?
Europeans
Fair skin highest intelligence fairest
Asians
Olive skin
ingenious imitative highly susceptible to learning
Compared to monkeys bc easily distracted
Native Americans
Brown skin
Averse to cultivation slow in knowledge fond of war
Mental capacity of a child
Africans
Black skin
Lowest educational humanity little invention imitative
Musically inclined

22. Science and Prejudice Science, skulls and mustard seeds
Morton influenced Agassiz
Agassiz trained prominent professors of natural history
Saying they were a separate species
Science, skulls and mustard seeds
Morton did an experiment with skulls
Found
1. Caucasian 2. Malay 3. Blacks 4. NA
Self-fulfilling prophecy
PROBLEMS:
1. Not many skulls used
2. uneven #’s
3. no mention of sex and age with skulls used
4. couldn’t be replicated

23. Industrial Revolution
How did this lead to Eugenics study?
A. People moving to cities increases:
1. Crime Poverty 3. Disease
B. Blacks/immigrants start getting more job opportunities
Reaction?
Francis Galton (coined term Eugenics)
Problem
Upper class more intelligent but poor had higher BR’s
Believed eugenics could solve this

25. Galton Said Must be WHY? People would rather be:
Healthy than sick
Vigorous than weak
Intelligent than dumb
Would you agree with those statements?
Must be
1. an academic question
2. studied through science
WHY?

26. Galton’s Mistakes Disregarded evidence:
1. Found poor did as well on intelligence tests (said it was flawed)
2. Regression towards mean

27. Eugenics and the Promise of Progress
Scientists believed Eugenics would:
1. Reduce crime
2. End some diseases
3. Increase intelligence
1904
Charles Davenport opened Cold Spring Harbor
US led the worldwide Eugenics Movement

32. Tracking Inherited Traits
Davenport
1. studied family trees (pedigree charts)
2. Sent students into poor houses
A. to observe
B. interview neighbors
Cold Spring Harbor concluded: (Inherited)
1. Sexual immorality 3. Alcoholism
2. Criminality 4. Insanity
PROBLEMS?

33. White Man’s Burden Define Imperialism Spanish-American War
Yellow journalism
Outcome
1. Cuba gets independence
2. Guam and Puerto Rico to US
3. Philippines under US control
A. Give back (help fight)
B. Civilize them

36. Who may enter? Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Should we limit certain people from coming in the country now? If so who? Why?
Disease
Education
Employability