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Tag: Eugenics
News Roundup
University College London Apologizes For Role in Eugenics Movement
University College London (UCL) issued a formal apology for its role in propagating eugenics and has promised to improve conditions for disabled staff and students as well as emphasize the malevolent nature of the pseudoscience in its curriculum, reports The Guardian. “UCL acknowledges with deep regret that it played a fundamental role in the development, […]
January 8, 2021
African-American
Harvard Medical School Renames Academic Society After First Black Tenured Professor
Harvard Medical School Dean George Q. Daley has approved renaming the school’s Holmes Society in honor of physician-scientist William Augustus Hinton, the first Black tenured professor at Harvard, The Harvard Crimson reported. Two medical students had started a petition to rename the Holmes Society earlier in 2020, accruing more than 1,000 signatures. A task force […]
October 7, 2020
News Roundup
Indiana University Removes Name of Former President From Campus Sites
Indiana University is removing the name of former President David Starr Jordan from places on its Bloomington campus because of his support for eugenics, the Kokomo Tribune reported. IU’s Board of Trustees voted 8-1 Friday to strip Jordan’s name from a classroom building, a garage and a creek. The Jordan River will be Campus River […]
October 5, 2020
News Roundup
Stanford U Will Review Requests to Rename Building With Ties to Eugenics
Stanford University said on Monday it will review requests to rename a building that has ties to eugenics, reported the Stanford Daily. The building in question is Jordan Hall, which was named in 1917 for Dr. David Starr Jordan, Stanford’s founding president and a leader of the eugenics movement. The movement promoted the belief that […]
April 22, 2020
Native Americans
Still Separate, Still Unequal: American Indians and Election 2018
To be sure, the legacy of conquest meant that American Indians and enslaved Africans were often forced to live in close proximity to each other. This proximity resulted in a number of blended families and children of mixed racial heritage who were discriminated against in distinct and overlapping ways based not on their self-identity, but on social identity.
October 20, 2018
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