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A 14 page research paper that examines the eugenics theories formulated in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to rationalize white supremacy by picturing blacks as inferior. The writer discusses how these quasi-scientific theories always interpreted data to support racial bias, with a particular focus on the use of black children in such literature. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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in origin. The medieval concept of world order rationalized the control of the Church over all facets of secular life. Since the Enlightenment, however, and the subsequent Scientific Revolution, Western
society has turned to science for its rationales. Science, in the form of psychiatry and medicine, has been used to rationalize slavery, colonialism and racism (Breggin and Breggin, 1994).
Theories propagated during the latter half of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth in the United States supported the notion of white supremacy and the subjugation
of African Americans as an "inferior" race that was genetically incapable of reaching full development. Within this theoretical framework, black children played an intrinsic role. By focusing on the
black child as a study subject, whites could more easily maintain their preferred perspective, which placed people of color within the framework of childhood. Whites saw African Americans as caught
within a perpetual limbo of continuous childhood, requiring paternalistic supervision "for their own good." By focusing on children, mainstream white society was able to create a foundation of quasi-scientific data
that supported their racial bias while also never perceiving African Americans as adults, thereby, essentially, never allowing black children to grow up. Theories were subsequently formulated that supported this paradigm
and "scientific evidence" was tailored to support racial biases. George Albee, professor of psychology at the University of Vermont, in an address to the American Psychological Association, stated that
he believed that, in regards to the social sciences, the whole "scientific" process was often reversed (Tucker, 1994). Rather than facts being used as the building blocks of theories,
Albee accused social scientists of formulating theories based on their own "personal values, attitudes, and prejudices" and then, going out in to the world in search of facts to
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