Book 7, Ep. 6 | Eugenics
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The Importance of Eugenic History in Canada
The US often had a more lenient set of immigration policies that were then paired with internal laws about managing racialized populations. Canada's response to anti-black racism was enslavement, whereas the US's was expulsion. A lot of anxieties about white women marrying Chinese men and women who were white women in relationships with Chinese men were frequently institutionalized by their families. So when we're thinking about the ways in which eugenics manages and controls the quote unquote mixing of races, we're really talking about people putting their children in institutions to prevent them from being in relationships with non-white people.
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