{"id":3207,"date":"2011-03-04T13:02:30","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T19:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mulibraries.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/?p=3207"},"modified":"2011-03-04T13:02:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T19:02:30","slug":"controlling-heredity-the-american-eugenics-crusade-1870-1940","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/2011\/03\/04\/controlling-heredity-the-american-eugenics-crusade-1870-1940\/","title":{"rendered":"Controlling Heredity: The American Eugenics Crusade 1870-1940"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mulibraries.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/EugenicsCrusade.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3209\" title=\"EugenicsCrusade\" src=\"http:\/\/mulibraries.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/EugenicsCrusade.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2011\/03\/EugenicsCrusade.jpg 420w, https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2011\/03\/EugenicsCrusade-300x107.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Controlling Heredity Exhibit will be on display in Ellis Library  from March 4 \u2013 30.\u00a0 The exhibit will be officially opened by a talk from  Professor of German Stefani Engelstein entitled \u201cVisions of  Transparency: The Human Body and Social Order.\u201d\u00a0 The talk will be in the  Ellis Library Colonnade on Tuesday March 8<sup>th<\/sup> at 3:00 PM.<\/p>\n<p>This exhibit displays and interprets some of the seminal texts that  embody the eugenics movement in the United States, detailing the  response of the privileged to accelerated and chaotic social change. The  exhibit explores two campaigns central to the eugenics movement:  restriction of the immigration of the \u201cunfit\u201d into the United States and  the forced sterilization of so-called degenerates who were American  citizens. In all, over 60,000 American citizens were sterilized.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibit and lecture are part of the Life Sciences &amp; Society Symposium series, which can be found at:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/muconf.missouri.edu\/sciencessocietysymposium\/AffiliatedEvents.html\" >http:\/\/muconf.missouri.edu\/sciencessocietysymposium\/AffiliatedEvents.html<\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Controlling Heredity Exhibit will be on display in Ellis Library from March 4 \u2013 30.\u00a0 The exhibit will be officially opened by a talk from Professor of German Stefani Engelstein entitled \u201cVisions of Transparency: The Human Body and Social<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/2011\/03\/04\/controlling-heredity-the-american-eugenics-crusade-1870-1940\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Controlling Heredity: The American Eugenics Crusade 1870-1940<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 04:40:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.missouri.edu\/newsnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}