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Anne MaxwellPublication Details
BookSussex Academic Press2008Availability
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Using a large body of racial-type images and a variety of historical and archival sources, and concentrating mainly on developments in Britain, the USA and Nazi Germany, the author argues that photography, as the most powerful visual medium of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was vital to the Eugenics Movement’s success - not only did it allow eugenicists to identify the people with superior and inferior hereditary traits, but it helped publicize and lend scientific authority to eugenicists’ racial theories.The author further argues for a strong connection between the racial-type photographs that eugenicists created and the photographic images produced by nineteenth-century anthropologists and prison authorities, and that the photographic works of contemporary liberal anthropologists played a significant role in the Eugenics Movement’s downfall.Besides adding to our knowledge of photography’s crucial role in helping to authorize and implement some of the most controversial social policies of modern times, this book makes a major contribution to our understanding of the history of racism. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Contents
- Racial-type photographs in the Colonial period
- The degenerate face: nineteenth-century prison photographs
- The eugenics movement begins : Galton and the races of Britain
- Building a healthy nation : eugenic images in the United States, 1890-1935
- Creating the master race: photography and the racial selection in Germany
- Sub- human versus the master race: racial-type photographs and Nazi party propaganda
- Eugenics under fire: the racial- type imagery of Boas, Du Bois, Huxley and Hadden
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- 9781845192396
- 1845192397
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