Remembering the SIEV X: who cares for the bodies of the stateless, lost at sea? [0.03%]
忆昔日SIEV X事件：当 Stateless 人遇难，谁来管？
Beth Gibbings
Beth Gibbings
The SIEV X was a tiny fishing vessel traveling from Indonesia to Australia in 2001, carrying around four hundred people seeking asylum after fleeing from the warfare and persecution predominantly in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many were women and...
Where are the bodies? A transnational examination of state violence and its consequences [0.03%]
bodies？跨国审视国家暴力及其后果
Judith Keene
Judith Keene
This special issue of The Public Historian will examine what is a pressing, pervasive, traumatic, and very public contemporary issue in which history and historians are heavily involved in many countries around the globe. Authors will inves...
Geographies of displacement: Latina/os, oral history, and the politics of gentrification in San Francisco's Mission District [0.03%]
消失的地理：拉丁美洲人、口述历史与旧金山梅森尼区城市更新的政治学
Nancy Raquel Mirabal
Nancy Raquel Mirabal
During the 1990s and early 2000s, working-class and poor neighborhoods in San Francisco underwent dramatic economic and racial changes. One of the most heavily gentrified neighborhoods was the Mission District. As a result of local politics...
David Cullen
David Cullen
The following essay is a review of the literature about the American eugenics movement produced by scholars over the last fifty years. The essay provides an explanation for today's renewed interest in the subject and for why the science of ...
Racial science now: histories of race and science in the age of personalized medicine [0.03%]
当代种族科学：个性化医疗时代的_race_与科学历史研究
Brian Beaton
Brian Beaton
The revitalization of race-based science and medicine at the very monient in which the history of "race" in science gained such widespread critical attention forces difficult questions regarding the success of the field. This article outlin...
Melissa Ooten,Sarah Trembanis
Melissa Ooten
In teaching eugenics to undergraduate students and general public audiences, film should he considered as a provocative and fruitful medium that can generate important discussions about the intersections among eugenics, gender, class, race,...
Rebecca M Kluchin
Rebecca M Kluchin
Scholars have been studying eugenics and sterilization for years, but only recently have some begun to examine these issues from the point of view of those sterilized. This is in large part because so few records containing the voices of th...
Joanne Woiak
Joanne Woiak
Aldous Huxley composed Brave New World in the context of the Depression and the eugenics movement in Britain. Today his novel is best known as satirical and predictive, but an additional interpretation emerges from Huxley's nonfiction writi...
R A R Edwards
R A R Edwards
A student raised a hand in class and asked, "Why is this dorm named after Alexander Graham Bell?" On a deaf campus, this was a loaded question. Bell was an oralist, opposed to sign language. He was a eugenicist, opposed to deaf marriages. I...
"Fitter families for future firesides": Florence Sherbon and popular eugenics [0.03%]
“更健康的家庭，更幸福的未来”——弗洛伦斯·舍尔本与吴纳科学的大众化宣传
Laura L Lovett
Laura L Lovett
In the 1920s, eugenicists adapted public health contests to create "Fitter Family for Future Firesides" contests. Designed by Mary T. Watts and Dr. Florence Sherbon, these contests were deliberately staged at agricultural fairs. These conte...