Eugenics Reading List

[Fade the Butcher]

Use this thread to suggest relevant sources about eugenics.

[Fade the Butcher]

History of Eugenics

Black, Edwin. War Against The Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568582587/ref=pd_sim_b_1/102-2950411-5312126?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155). New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2003.

Brookes, Martin. Extreme Measures: The Dark Visions and Bright Ideas of Francis Galton. (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1582344817/qid=1141677358/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-2950411-5312126?s=books&v=glance&n=283155) Bloomsbury USA, 2004.

Bruinius, Harry. Better For All The World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America's Quest for Racial Purity (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0375413715/qid=1141876983/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-2950411-5312126?s=books&v=glance&n=283155). New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.

Carlson, Elof Axel. The Unfit: The History of a Bad Idea (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0879695870/ref=pd_sim_b_1/102-2950411-5312126?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155). Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, 2001.

Cogdell, Christina. Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0812238249/qid=1141877784/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-2950411-5312126?s=books&v=glance&n=283155). University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.

Engs, Ruth Clifford. The Eugenics Movement: An Encyclopedia (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0313327912/102-2950411-5312126?v=glance&n=283155). Greenwood Press, 2005.

Franks, Angela. Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Legacy: The Control of Female Fertility (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786420111/ref=pd_sbs_b_4/102-2950411-5312126?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance&n=283155). McFarland & Company, 2005.

Kevles, Daniel J. In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674445570/qid=1141876710/sr=2-3/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_3/102-2950411-5312126?s=books&v=glance&n=283155). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985.

Kühl, Stefan. The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195149785/qid=1141874253/sr=1-6/ref=sr_1_6/102-2950411-5312126?s=books&v=glance&n=283155). Oxford University Press, 2002.

Laughlin, Harry H. Eugenical Sterilization in the United States. Chicago: Psychopathic Laboratory of the Municipal Court of Chicago, 1922.

Morra, Mark. Genetic Based Democracy: Rising out of the Dark Age of Egalitariat America (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1560725443/102-2950411-5312126?v=glance&n=283155). Nova Science Pub., 1998.

Nies, Betsy Lee. Eugenic Fantasies: Racial Ideology in the Literature and Popular Culture of the 1920s (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/102-2950411-5312126?url=index%3Dstripbooks%3Arelevance-above&field-keywords=eugenic+fantasies). Routledge, 2001.

Rosen, Christine. Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0313327912/102-2950411-5312126?v=glance&n=283155). Oxford University Press, 2004.

Smith, David J. The Eugenic Assault on America: Scenes in Red, White, and Black (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0913969532/qid=1141878560/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/102-2950411-5312126?s=books&v=glance&n=283155). George Mason University Press, 1992.

Stern, Alexandra Minna. Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0520244443/ref=pd_sxp_grid_pt_1_0/102-2950411-5312126?%5Fencoding=UTF8). University of California Press, 2005.

Stone, Dan. Breeding Superman: Nietzsche, Race, and Eugenics in Edwardian and Interwar Britain (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0853239975/sr=8-1/qid=1141875450/ref=sr_1_1/102-2950411-5312126?%5Fencoding=UTF8). Liverpool University Press, 2002.

Weikart, Richard. From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/140397201X/qid=1141876770/sr=1-5/ref=sr_1_5/102-2950411-5312126?s=books&v=glance&n=283155). Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

[Faustian Dreams]

"Race" by John R. Baker. Was published by the Oxford UP until they realized they didn't want to be associated with anything intelligent.

[Dan Dare]

F.D. just beat me to it. Baker is an essential source. Now OOP but available on the secondhand market, usually in the 1981 paperback edition from the Foundation for Human Understanding, Athens, Georgia (ISBN 0 936396 01 6)

[Ahknaton]

Matt Nuenke's reviews on Amazon are a good pointer towards good reading material on these topics:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A3VW11SKSST2A7?_encoding=UTF8

http://www.amazon.com/gp/cdp/member-reviews/A3LRQGSTZUUDD0?_encoding=UTF8

[Fade the Butcher]

Great. Further suggestions? I'm going to put together a separate recommended list as well.

[eggheadbanga]

German 'racial hygiene'

Weindling, Paul, Health, Race and German Politics between National Unification and Nazism, 1870-1945. Cambridge, 199?

Burleigh, Michael and Wippermann, Wolfgang, The Racial State: Germany 1933-1945. Cambridge, 1991


For Soviet perspectives, explaining why Soviet anthropologists veered towards accepting the concept of race then veered away:

Hirsch, Francine, ‘Race without the Practice of Racial Politics’, Slavic Review, 61/1, 2002, pp.30-43

Hirsch, Francine, ‘The Soviet Union as a Work-in-Progress: Ethnographers and the Category Nationality in the 1926, 1937 and 1939 Censuses’, Slavic Review, 56/2, 1997, pp.251-278

(and Hirsch's entire book-of-dissertation: Hirsch, Francine, ‘Empire of Nations: Colonial Technologies and the Making of the Soviet Union, 1917-1939’, PhD, Princeton University, 1998)

Weindling, Paul, 'German-Soviet Medical Co-operation and the Institute for Racial Research, 1927-ca. 1935', German History 10, 1992, pp.177-206

[Anarch]

On Race:

Race and Human Evolution (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0813335469/qid=1142160325/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-4580874-9137647?s=books&v=glance&n=283155) - Milford Wolpoff, Rachel Caspari

Genes, Peoples, and Languages (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0520228731/sr=8-1/qid=1142160730/ref=sr_1_1/002-4580874-9137647?%5Fencoding=UTF8) - Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

Why Race Matters: Race Differences and What They Mean (Human Evolution, Behavior, and Intelligence) (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0275957896/qid=1142160789/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_7/002-4580874-9137647?v=glance&s=books) - Michael E. Levin

[Ravenheart]

Lynn, Richard - Eugenics: A Reassessment

Covers many forms of positive and negative eugenics. Highly recommeded, though it is somewhat lacking in its presentation of the racial dimension.

[fieldmouse]

The works of Hans Jürgen Eysenck should be relevant here. Another phsychologist with controversial views about race and IQ. Unfortunately I've not read any myself however.

[Faustian Dreams]

"Transhumanism" (http://ne-plus-ultra.org/huxley.htm) by Julian Huxley

"The New Divinity (http://www.update.uu.se/~fbendz/library/jh_divin.htm) by Julian Huxley

Man In The Modern World (http://www.archive.org/details/ManInTheModernWorld) by Julian Huxley

Julian is Brave New World author Aldous Huxley's older brother.

[Lykaios]

I'm a little surprised at the list Fade chose to start off this thread, although maybe I shouldn't be; he was always more interested in the political angle than the psychometric or genetic angles. We have a completely different list up HERE (http://www.childrenofmillennium.org/eugenics.htm).

The works of Hans Jürgen Eysenck should be relevant here. Another phsychologist with controversial views about race and IQ. Unfortunately I've not read any myself however.
Eysenck has gradually moved to the position of "my personal favorite soft scientist." It's unfortunate that his pupil, Jensen, made a bigger name for himself by cornering the race and IQ market. Eysenck was a far more creative individual who had a much broader range of interests and ultimately contributed much more to mu understanding of humanity than Jensen. Although he had a large volume of work, I can suggest from memory a few titles for the curious reader to look up at Amazon or the local library:

Eysenck, Consensus and Controversy
Genes, Culture and Personality: An empirical approach
The Psychology of Polilitics
Genius: A natural history of creativity
The Causes and Cures of Criminality

Probably my favorite is the Consensus and Controversy volume, which contains mostly critical writings by other psychologists. It tersely covers his many unusual ideas, among them...

* SMOKING - Eysenck wasn't convinced that there was sufficient evidence to demonstrate that it caused health problems.

* PSI - He believed the evidence gathered by parapsychologists could not be explained away

* TOUGHMINDEDNESS - Eysenck believed that research clearly pointed to a two-factor solution to political variance with a tough/tender axis as well as a conservative/radical axis; this will probably be of especial interest to Phora posters.

I should add the disclaimer however that nothing there is directly related to eugenics, though by the same token and that there is very little in life that is not indirectly related to eugenics.


--Mark

[Ixtab]

The only book I have read by Eysenck is his Uses and Abuses of Psychology (or some such title), which I read a decade ago. I recommend it, though I don't recall much being said about race differences. He does critically examine Eugenics.

[Fade the Butcher]

I never finished the list. Laziness, I suppose. :p

[WFHermans]

Ancient Eugenics

The Arnold Prize Essay for 1913 by Allen G. Roper, B.A.

Online here (http://www.plausiblefutures.com/index.php?id=54552)

"We drown the weakling and the monstrosity. It is not passion, but reason, to separate the useless from the fit." (Seneca, "De Ira," i. I8.)

[Fade the Butcher]

Plato discusses eugenics in The Republic.

[Ravenheart]

Nicholas Agar - Liberal Eugenics: In Defense of Human Enhancement
Francis Galton - Essays in Eugenics
Richard Lynn - Eugenics: A Reassessment
Gregory Stock - Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future

[Vindex]

I found the "Eugenics Manifesto" at Nukeisrael.com in the libary section. I have not read it.

[Joe McCarthy]

I'm thunderstruck that no one has mentioned Lothrop Stoddard's 'The Revolt Against Civilization: The Menace of the Underman'. Stoddard was intimately involved with Madison Grant in the American Eugenics Society and if anything Stoddard is the man on eugenics after Galton. The book is powerful and entertaining. Stoddard's best work in my view.

[Brechun]

Imperfect Conditions (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product//0231113706/ref=cm_aya_asin.title/103-5694204-4716620) Frank Dikotter, 1998

An excellent book on the Chinese eugenics program. I'm sad to see that there've been so few on it. However I have to comment on Nuenke's review.

They already control reproduction; all they have to do is continue to suppress the births of low intelligent/genetically defective couples while encouraging multiple births by 'gifted couples.' They can discourage some marriages, use forced sterilizations, while providing incentives to others. They have complete freedom to promote and national eugenics program without criticism from the press or independent voices if they so choose.

Contradicting Nuenke's extreme hereditarian views (he's full of shit imo), the chinese have had to deal with millions of rural, poor, and farmer chinese integrating and migrating into their cities and major population centers. And they're still doing this. The huge proportions of high IQ chinese hasn't always been there. Why? Because many of these integrated chinese were *gasp* subjected to social effects that boosted their IQ! You can see this easily. Families who were living off primitive, isolated rice farms several generations ago to having their modern descendants building high-tech military equipment. The basic story of Chinese eugenics hilariously refutes many of the extreme hereditarian positions, and basically shows that social intervention and engineering can work hand-in-hand with eugenics.

Not to mention Nuenke doesn't even cite the idea that the chinese believe they're in competitions with whites. Although the general political views of the chinese have changed greatly in recent years, the effects of marxism still linger- apparently many chinese are racist, but don't really buy into ideas of racial superiority and inferiority, and don't believe themselves to be in competition with whites. The west certainly, but not on a basis of race.

The Eugenics Movement: An Encyclopedia (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0313327912/thephilosoindefeA)

Ruth Clifford Engs, 2005

Excellent general resource for the history of worldwide eugenics, including numerous references, sources, and photos.

American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism (http://www.amazon.com/American-Eugenics-Anatomy-Science-Nationalism/dp/0816635595/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b/103-5694204-4716620)

Nancy Ordover, 2003

Mostly anti-eugenics, but a good read on how eugenic-worldviews and attitudes purvey in many aspects of american intellectual movements and modern social and political climates.

Struggle For National Survival:Eugenics in Sino-Japanese Contexts, 1896-1945 (http://www.amazon.com/Struggle-National-Survival-Sino-Japanese-1896-1945/dp/0415933668/sr=8-1/qid=1164528863/ref=sr_1_1/103-5694204-4716620?ie=UTF8&s=books)

Yuehtsen Chung and Yuehtsen Juliette Chung, 2002

An amazing book written by chinese citizens themselves. Expensive and rare, yet truly valuable, a book on the history of chinese and japanese eugenics from the late 1800's leading up the mid 1900's. Goes perfectly in line Imperfect Conceptions.

Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction (http://www.amazon.com/Conceiving-New-World-Order-Reproduction/dp/0520089146/sr=1-8/qid=1164530178/ref=sr_1_8/103-5694204-4716620?ie=UTF8&s=books)

Faye D. Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp, 1995

I'm not sure if this fits in, especially how it's mostly a feminist book, but it does tie in well with eugenics and discusses it as well. Putting forward ideas on how the control of general reproduction in a population and civilization and it's relation to social factors, apparently good on philosophical and sociological factors of eugenics.

By the way, IMO it would be better if people in this thread could give brief synposis' of the books they bring up and their views on them. If Fade could do so, be my guest. Other could do some work too.

[Arcturus]

Shockley on Eugenics and Race, by Dr. William Shockley, the father of the modern transistor.

[Northern_Paladin]

Can someone go over with me how Fade got banned? I want to laugh a little.:p :222: :cool:

[PsychoStick]

I hope this is the right place to post this thread.

This little journey started with me looking at a website called Millennium that was all about Eugenics and the furthering of the human race through intelligent selective breeding. When I contacted the owner about more information and sources he informed me that he took down the website 2 years ago but encouraged me in my search and gave me some references to help me on my way. (I had apparently come across a cached version of the website, ty google)

With the names he gave me I then wound up following this trail:

1. http://file.wikileaks.info/leak/nsmfargo-hotmail-emails-2009/msg00006.html

2. http://file.wikileaks.info/leak/nsmfargo-hotmail-emails-2009/msg00010.html

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Luther_Pierce

4. http://www.archive.org/details/CosmotheismTrilogyByWilliamLutherPierce
I wasn't particularly impressed with this website or what the guy had to say since it was in direct conflict on some points with what I had been able to learn about Cosmotheism so far. but it did lead me to:
http://solargeneral.com/

I'm posting this because of the online books and other resources i found at solargeneral. the books are published online and free to download/read.

[PsychoStick]

http://stevenjohnhibbs.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/new-eugenics-and-the-rise-of-the-global-scientific-dictatorship/