This is a list of resources for teachers that may help to further engage with the unit topic, as well as provide a variety of primary and secondary sources for students.
Anti-Eugenics:
Anti-Eugenics Collective at Yale (AECY), https://www.antieugenicscollective.org/
Christine Sun Kim Performs National Anthem, https://youtu.be/c2TCT5HYlHQ?si=ItHtB1s8JGkX6hjX
Disability Visibility Project, https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/
Intersectional Histories, https://intersectionalhistories.com/
Sean Forbes, https://www.youtube.com/@seanforbes
Warren “Wawa” Snipe, https://www.youtube.com/@TheWawaVision
Composite Photography:
Francis Galton and Composite Portraiture, https://galton.org/composite.htm
Francis Galton, Photography https://smarthistory.org/francis-galton-eugenics-and-photography/
Khan Academy, Galton, https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/early-photo/early-photo-france/a/francis-galton-eugenics-and-photography
Fitter Family and Better Babies Contests:
“American Fitter Family Contest,” https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2199&dat=19280811&id=aH5YAAAAIBAJ&sjid=s0MNAAAAIBAJ&pg=1169,996238&hl=en
“Baby Week Campaigns,” https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c006687613&seq=12
“Certified Families, ”Journal of Heredity, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uva.x001700901&seq=87
Fitter Family Contests, American Philosophical Library, https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/taxonomy/term/6379
The Better Babies Bureau, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951002803105c&seq=37
Women’s Home Companion, “Better Babies,” https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015011949552&seq=186
History of Eugenics
AMA Journal of Ethics, https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/how-use-bmi-fetishizes-white-embodiment-and-racializes-fat-phobia/2023-07
Eugenics Archive, http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/list3.pl
Eugenics Hall, https://antieugenicsproject.org/exhibition/eugenics-hall/
“Eugenics Makes the World Go Round,” https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/32331955
“Degenerate Art,” https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/d/degenerate-art
“Degenerate Music,” https://www.dw.com/en/the-nazis-take-on-degenerate-music/a-16834697
Doctrine of White Supremacy, https://intothelight.ca/pages/mona-stonefish/colonial-eugenics-in-education/artifact-2.html
Music
Apple Podcasts, Music and Eugenics, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/music-and-eugenics-with-alexander-cowan/id1516336192?i=1000678253607
Carl Seashore, Psychology of Music, https://archive.org/details/psychologyofmusi030417mbp/page/n11/mode/2up
Spotify and Race Science, https://soundstudiesblog.com/2020/03/09/listen-to-yourself-spotify-ancestry-dna-and-the-fortunes-of-race-science-in-the-twenty-first-century/
“Unsound: A Cultural History of Music and Eugenics,” Harvard, https://dash.harvard.edu/entities/publication/dacd399f-53fe-496e-820d-aaf209ba77d5