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In Search of Purity: 

Popular Eugenics & Racial Uplift Among New Negroes 1915-1935

Dr. Shantella Sherman

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"If you do not understand eugenics in the framing of race policies, what you believe you know of racism, Otherness, and national character, will only confuse you." 

-- Dr. Shantella Sherman 

LONDON QUICK NOTE: TRIBUTE TO MALCOLM X (2019) 

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One of the most effective methods of introducing the science of eugenics and its theories both past and present is through popular television and film.  Using an array of works from The Graduate and Orphan Black to Claudine and A soldier's Story, Acumen introduces the concepts of hereditarianism, innate characteristics, social bias to both young and matures audiences. 

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