Eugenic States: A Contextual Archive Main Menu Introduction Critical Themes in the History of Eugenics Eugenic Practices in California, Iowa, and North Carolina What We Can Say with Data Acknowledgements

Looking at Eugenic Practices Across the Nation

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Eugenic ideas were widely contested across the United States, including within the states where sterilization was legal. In what follows we have taken data from both our primary sources - sterilization recommendations and other archival records - and analyzed them along with publicly available data sets like the US Census. The resulting data visualizations give us and you different views on how eugenic practices emerged and declined in various parts of the United States and allow some differences and similarities between states to emerge.

This page has paths:

  1. What We Can Say with Data Jacqueline D. Wernimont

Contents of this path:

  1. A Patchwork of Practices
  2. Total Known Sterilizations By State
  3. An Uneven Timeline
  4. Race and Diagnosis Interactions