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Table of Contents

Foreword vii
Preface viii
Overview x
Chapter 1. Science Fictions and Social Realities 1
1. What Do We Do with a Variation? 2
2. Eye of the Beholder 4
3. Beyond Classification 8
4. “What Is Your Race?” 13
5. “Passing” 17
6. Race and Racism 20
7. Challenging Limits 26
8. The Masterpiece Society 31
Chapter 2. Race, Democracy, and Citizenship 34
1. Who Is Human? 36
2. Who Is Equal? 39
3. Ranking Humankind 43
4. Science and Prejudice 47
5. Science, Skulls, and Mustard Seeds 51
6. Race and Citizenship 55
7. Challenging Racism 58
Chapter 3. Evolution, “Progress,” and Eugenics 62
1. From Darwin to Social Darwinism 63
2. “Race Improvement” 68
3. The Laws of Heredity 71
4. Eugenics and the Promise of “Progress” 74
5. Tracking Inherited Traits 77
6. All in the Family 82
7. Raising Questions 86
Chapter 4. In an Age of “Progress” 90
1. “Marvels of a Marvelous Age” 92
2. The End of the Frontier 96
3. A Celebration of “Progress” 99
4. “Progress,” Civilization, and “Color-Line Murder” 105
5. Doors to Opportunity 109
6. Taking Up the “White Man’s Burden” 113
7. Disparities 119
8. “Progress” and Poverty 124
9. Rumors and Fears 129
10.”The Kind of World We Lived In” 133
Chapter 5. Eugenics and the Power of Testing 140
1. Science, Eugenics, and Propaganda 142
2. Targeting the “Unfit” 146
3. Identifying the “Unfit” 151
4. Revising the Test 156
5. Fears of Declining Intelligence 160
6. Racism and Intelligence Test Scores 164
7. Limiting Opportunity 167
8. Challenging Racial Assumptions 172
9. Intelligence Testing Today 176
Chapter 6. Toward Civic Biology 181
1. What Did You Learn in School Today? 182
2. Eugenics, Race, and Marriage 187
3. Controlling the “Unfit” 191
4. “Three Generations of Imbeciles”? 195
5. Apology or “Regrets”? 201
Chapter 7. Eugenics, Citizenship, and Immigration 206
1. Guarded Gates or an Open Door? 207
2. From an Immigrant’s Perspective 211
3. Who May Enter? 214
4. Race and Citizenship 216
5. War, Immigration, and Hysteria 220
6. Restricting Immigration 223
7. The Debate in Congress 226
8. “A Defensive Action” 232
9. Immigration and Racism 235
Chapter 8. The Nazi Connection 240
1. Eugenicists, Democrats, and Dictators 242
2. The American Influence 244
3. ”Thinking Biologically” 247
4. Ideas Have Consequences 251
5. Under the Cover of Law 256
6. Citizenship and “Racial Enemies” 262
7. Eugenics and American Public Policy 266
8. Honorary Degrees and Propaganda 269
9. Protesting Eugenic Policies 272
10. New Discoveries 275
11. “Where Is this Path Taking Us?” 278
12. Confronting a “Twisted Science” 283
Chapter 9. Legacies and Possibilities 288
1. The Unknown Citizen 290
2. “The Whole Is Not the Sum of Its Parts” 292
3. Is Race “Skin Deep”? 295
4. The Power of Stereotypes 302
5. Measuring Intelligences 310
6. Trends in Genetic Research 315
7. Will Genetic Research Lead to Eugenic Policies? 320
8. Raising Moral Questions 324
9. The Power of History 331
For Further Investigation 334
Index 344

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