LEADER 03676nam 2200649 450 001 9910459934603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-2331-4 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442623316 035 $a(CKB)3710000000329573 035 $a(EBL)3296845 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001471772 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11917274 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001471772 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11432165 035 $a(PQKB)11252646 035 $a(CEL)449468 035 $a(OCoLC)903440938 035 $a(CaBNVSL)thg00916158 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3296845 035 $a(DE-B1597)465650 035 $a(OCoLC)944178927 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442623316 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4670146 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4670146 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256660 035 $a(OCoLC)958570948 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000329573 100 $a20160921h20141990 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOur own master race $eeugenics in Canada, 1885-1945 /$fAngus McLaren 210 1$aToronto, Ontario ;$aBuffalo, New York ;$aLondon, England :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ1990 215 $a1 online resource (232 p.) 225 1 $aCanadian Social History Series 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-4426-5964-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $t1. The Birth of Biological Politics -- $t2. Public Health and Hereditarian Concerns -- $t3. Stemming the Flood of Defective Aliens -- $t4. Sex, Science, and Race Betterment -- $t5. Creating a Haven for Human Thoroughbreds -- $t6. The Eugenics Society of Canada -- $t7. Genetics, Eugenics, and Human Pedigrees -- $t8. The Death of Eugenics? -- $tEpilogue -- $tNotes -- $tIndex -- $tBackmatter 330 $aWas Canada immune to the racist currents of thought that swept central Europe in the 1920's and 1930's? In this landmark book Angus McLaren, co-author of The Bedroom and the State, examines the pervasiveness in Canada of the eugenic notion of "race betterment" and demonstrates that many Canadians believed that radical measures were justified to protect the community from the "degenerate." The sterilization of the feeble-minded in Alberta and British Columbia was merely the most dramatic attempt to limit the numbers of the "unfit." But in the decades prior to World War Two, eugenic preoccupations were to colour discussions of immigration restriction, birth control, mental testing, family allowances, and a host of similar social policies. Doctors, psychiatrists, geneticists, social workers, and mental hygienists provided an anxious Canadian middle class with the reassuring argument that poverty, crime, prostitution, and mental retardation were primarily the products of defective genes, not a defective social system. In explaining why biological solutions were sought for social problems McLaren not only provides a provocative reappraisal of the ideas and activities of a generation of feminists, political progressives, and public health propagandists but he also explores some of the roots of our not-so-latent racist tendencies. 410 0$aCanadian social history series. 606 $aEugenics$zCanada$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEugenics$xHistory 676 $a363.9/2/0971 700 $aMcLaren$b Angus$0223783 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459934603321 996 $aOur own master race$92116457 997 $aUNINA