Eugenics Posters At Public Fair #1 Photograph by American Philosophical Society

Eugenics Posters At Public Fair #1

by American Philosophical Society

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Eugenics Posters At Public Fair #1

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American Philosophical Society

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Eugenics posters at public fair. Posters used by the American Eugenics Society (AES) to promote their views on marriages (left), comparing human reproduction to agricultural breeding (right). The poster at left refers to 'fit' and 'unfit' marriages, and the inheritance of 'pure', 'tainted' and 'abnormal' traits. The ratios in the six examples are based on the mathematics of Mendelian inheritance. Eugenics is the controversial practice of selectively improving the genetics of human populations. The AES (founded 1923) was criticised for its racist assumptions and support of forced sterilizations. Photographed circa 1929 at the Kansas Free Fair, Kansas, USA.

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