Category: Scientific Racism

• The Eugenics "Master Race" Plot

  This theory held that political, scientific, and philanthropic elites were attempting to reshape humanity by encouraging the reproduction of the “fit” and limiting or preventing the reproduction of the “unfit.” Unlike later retrospective comparisons to Nazi Germany, the early twentieth-century version was not merely rumor or fringe speculation: organized eugenics was a documented and influential movement in the United States, Britain, and elsewhere. The “plot” language arises because a program of selective breeding, heredity management, institutional record-keeping, and policy intervention was visibly promoted by elite networks and public authorities.