22 dic 1919 anni - 1920s: Eugenics and scientific racism movement emerges

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Eugenics is the scientifically erroneous and immoral theory of “racial improvement” and “planned breeding,” which gained popularity during the early 20th century.

Eugenic theories and scientific racism drew support from contemporary xenophobia, antisemitism, sexism, colonialism and imperialism, as well as justifications of slavery, particularly in the United States.

Eugenicists worldwide believed that they could perfect human beings and eliminate so-called social ills through genetics and heredity. They believed the use of methods such as involuntary sterilization, segregation and social exclusion would rid society of individuals deemed by them to be unfit.

Scientific racism is an ideology that appropriates the methods and legitimacy of science to argue for the superiority of white Europeans and the inferiority of non-white people whose social and economic status have been historically marginalized.

Like eugenics, scientific racism grew out of:

the misappropriation of revolutionary advances in medicine, anatomy and statistics during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution through the mechanism of natural selection.

Gregor Mendel’s laws of inheritance.

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