'This Mighty Struggle for Life': Modernist Protestant Ministers, Biopolitical Violence, and Negative Eugenics in the 1920s United States
Over sixty thousand Americans were sterilized in states that enacted sterilization laws during the first four decades of the twentieth century. American eugenicists supported these laws as part of a negative eugenics crusade to purify the white racial body. Many modernist Protestant ministers also p...
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Philosophy Documentation Center
2014
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Journal of religion and violence
Year: 2014, Volume: 2, Issue: 2, Pages: 308-332 |
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