Eugenics-McKayla

**California Eugenicists**
By: McKayla Linton


 * **Eugenics Movement:** a campaign for ethnic cleansing - a racist pseudoscience determined to wipe away all human beings deemed "unfit," preserving only those who conformed to a Nordic stereotype"(Black).

- "the concept of a white, blond-haired, blue-eyed master Nordic race didn't originate with Hitler. The idea was created in the United States, and cultivated in California, decades before Hitler came to power"(Black).

- "Before World War II, nearly half of coercive sterilizations were done in California, and even after the war, the state accounted for a third of all such surgeries"(Black).

- "Eugenics would have been so much bizarre parlor talk had it not been for extensive financing by corporate philanthropies, specifically the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Harriman railroad fortune. They were all in league with some of America's most respected scientists hailing from such prestigious universities as Stamford, Yale, Harvard, and Princeton. These academicians espoused race theory and race science, and then faked and twisted data to serve eugenics' racist aims" (Black).

- "The Rockefeller Foundation helped found the German eugenics program and even funded the program that Josef Mengele worked in before he went to Auschwitz" (Black).

-Pasadena-based Human Betterment Foundation -The California branch of the American Eugenics Society These organizations published racist eugenic newsletters and pseudoscientific journals, such as //Eugenical News// and //Eugenics//, and propagandized for the Nazis (Black).
 * California's quasi-autonomous eugenic societies/supporting organizations:**

http://hnn.us/articles/1796.html