What is eugenics and how did W.E.B. DuBois use science to disprove this pseudoscience?
White Anglo-Saxon Protestants' during the late 1890s and the late 1930s on both sides of the Atlantic were concerned about the future of their country's gene pool and how it might be tainted by varied immigrants on both sides of the Atlantic.
These fears were exacerbated by a theoretical framework known as eugenics, which was first introduced in 1883 by Sir Frances Galton, a British polymath and naturalist who was a pioneer in various fields including meteorology, psychology, and anthropometrics.
From the Greek word "eugenes," the word eugenics is derived, which means 'hereditarily endowed with noble attributes' or "good in stock". Galton used the phrase in his 1883 book "Inquiries into the Human Faculty and its Development.'
The purpose was to devise a method that would "provide more acceptable races a better chance of quickly prevailing over less suitable races. In a 1904 edition of the American Journal of Sociology, Galton defined eugenics as the science that deals with those causes that improve the inborn features of a race, as well as those that develop them to the maximum advantage.
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