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How Trump’s racist talk of immigrant ‘bad genes’ echoes some of the last century’s darkest ideas about eugenics

Donald Trump speaks at Madison Square Garden in New York on Oct. 27, 2024. John Salangsang/Invision/AP by Shannon Bow O'Brien, The University of Texas at...

A new ‘race science’ network is linked to a history of eugenics that never fully left academia

  Antonio Marca/Shutterstock by Lars Cornelissen, Independent Social Research Foundation The Guardian and anti-fascist group Hope Not Hate have revealed the existence of a new network of...

Yes, calling someone ‘mentally disabled’ causes real harm

Donald Trump at an Erie, Pa., rally on Sept. 29, 2024, at which he said Democratic rival Kamala Harris was ‘mentally impaired.’ Dustin Franz/AFP/Getty...

Eugen Sandow was the posterboy of physical culture: his 1904 visit to South Africa reinforced racist ideas

Eugen Sandow stopped in South Africa on a world tour. Wellcome Collection/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY by Francois Cleophas, Stellenbosch University Eugen Sandow was an internationally famous...

Backlash to transgender health care isn’t new − but the faulty science used to justify it has changed to meet the times

by G. Samantha Rosenthal, Roanoke College In the past century, there have been three waves of opposition to transgender health care. In 1933, when the Nazis...

In the worst of America’s Jim Crow era, Black intellectual W.E.B. Du Bois found inspiration and hope in national parks

by Thomas S. Bremer, Rhodes College In his collection of essays and poems published in 1920 titled “Darkwater,” W.E.B. Du Bois wrote about his poignant...

White men have controlled women’s reproductive rights throughout American history – the post-Dobbs era is no different

U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, a Democrat from Missouri, after participating in an abortion rights sit-in on July 19, 2022, in Washington. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images by...

What is voluntary sterilization? A health communication expert unpacks how a legacy of forced sterilization shapes doctor-patient conversations today

by Elizabeth Hintz, University of Connecticut Sterilization is a safe and effective form of permanent birth control used by more than 220 million couples around...

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