Eugenic States: A Contextual Archive

Total Known Sterilizations By State

The previous heat map is a great way to see the nation as a patchwork of practices and per capita helps us compare while controlling for population, but a color gradient can be hard to make sense of in more than general terms. This bar chart makes the difference between states in terms of totals - rather than rates - much clearer and provides a stark comparison between California and other American states.

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  1. Looking at Eugenic Practices Across the Nation Jacqueline D. Wernimont

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