Buck v. Bell

A Student’s Guide to Essential Primary Sources
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Buck v. Bell
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https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844025.book-part-145

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Abstract

Eugenics, the set of practices and beliefs that aimed to improve and protect certain groups by suppressing others, swept across the UnitedStates as a movement in the latter half of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century. Eugenics theory and laws informed numerous policy areas, such as immigration (gatekeeping who should be allowed into the United States and who should not) and procreation (regulating who should be allowed to repopulate and who should not). Immigrant groups, people of color, and individuals with disabilities and mental health issues were all targeted for suppression. Such was the case in Buck v. Bell.

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