“Blood Will Tell”. The Eugenics Movement in Canada Prior

• Authors: Łukasz Albański
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Until the eugenics movement got under way, “race” was always in some sense a popular science. In the nineteenth century there were important attempts to identify nationality with race.2 Racialism thus provided a powerful framework for interpreting and explaining other cultures, and for articulating the racial supremacy of one race. Moreover, racial heredity implied that there must be a unity of descent. Once upon a time there must have existed a number of ancestors of definite bodily form, from whom the present population has descended. This is clearest in the case of a homogenous population.

Keywords

EN

Eugenics; Canada; World War II

• Publisher: Księgarnia Akademicka
• Journal: Politeja : Pismo Wydziału Studiów Miedzynarodowych i Politycznych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
• Year: 2010
• Issue: 1(13)
• Pages: 241-250

Contributors

author

Łukasz Albański

• Instytut Amerykanistyki i Studiow Polonijnych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Rynek Główny 34, 31-010 Cracow, Poland