Eugenic design
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"In Eugenic Design, Christina Cogdell charts new territory in the history of industrial design, popular science, and American culture in the 1930s by uncovering the links between streamline design and eugenics, the pseudoscientific belief that the best human traits could - and should - be cultivated through selective breeding. Streamline designers approached products the same way eugenicists approached bodies. Both considered themselves to be reformers advancing evolutionary progress through increased efficiency, hygiene, and the creation of a utopian "ideal type." Cogdell reconsiders the popular streamline style in U.S. industrial design and proposes that in theory, rhetoric, and context the style served as a material embodiment of eugenic ideology." "With careful analysis and abundant illustrations, Eugenic Design is a reinterpretation of one of America's most significant and popular design forms, ultimately grappling with the question of how ideology influences design."—BOOK JACKET.
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War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race
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The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea
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Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America
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Better for All the World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilization and America's Quest for Racial Purity