LEADER 03786nam 22005535 450 001 9910874688303321 005 20250808083621.0 010 $a9783031635533$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783031635526 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-63553-3 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31534748 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31534748 035 $a(CKB)33063730000041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-63553-3 035 $a(OCoLC)1450106772 035 $a(EXLCZ)9933063730000041 100 $a20240719d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEugenics in American Political Life $eHow the Politics of Superiority Still Shape Us Today /$fby Shannon Bow O'Brien 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (137 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: O'Brien, Shannon Bow Eugenics in American Political Life Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2024 9783031635526 327 $aChapter 1: Eugenics Origins -- Chapter 2: Mammy Statues, Power, and the Importance of Framing -- Chapter 3: Immigration Laws and Eugenics -- Chapter 4: Donald Trump?s Rhetoric and how Eugenics Frames His World -- Chapter 5: Conclusion. 330 $aThe book explores the development of the American eugenics movement and how it still plays a role in American life. Building on a brief overview of the concept of eugenics, Shannon Bow O?Brien charts the foundations of the ideas, significant influences, and influencers of the movement in the last 19th and early 20th centuries. She discusses how these ideals and social life shaped American culture and encouraged attitudes toward racial and ethnic biases, including immigration policies in that period. O?Brien examines how the founding of the United States of America was built on unwanted individuals from the United Kingdom; transported felons and indentured servants were many of the original colonists. As the population forged its new nation, many of these individuals were the focus of restrictive immigration policies that sought to amend the identity of the American citizen and sought to define acceptable roles for Black persons within American society. Faithful slave monuments provided physical models to help engrain these roles within American life. O?Brien traces the development of the Mammy statue movement and its intersectionality with the restrictive immigration laws. Finally, she turns to the rhetoric of Donald Trump and contextualizes his speech in the ideology of the superiority of White Nordic nativism within American life. Shannon Bow O?Brien is Associate Professor of Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin in the Government Department. She is the author of Why Presidential Speech Locations Matter: Analyzing Speechmaking from Truman to Obama and Donald Trump (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and Donald Trump and the Kayfabe Presidency: Professional Wrestling Rhetoric in the White House (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). . 606 $aAmerica$xPolitics and government 606 $aWorld politics 606 $aPolitical science 606 $aAmerican Politics 606 $aPolitical History 606 $aPolitical Science 615 0$aAmerica$xPolitics and government. 615 0$aWorld politics. 615 0$aPolitical science. 615 14$aAmerican Politics. 615 24$aPolitical History. 615 24$aPolitical Science. 676 $a363.920973 700 $aO'Brien$b Shannon Bow$0891353 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910874688303321 996 $aEugenics in American Political Life$94183835 997 $aUNINA