Reckoning With the History of Eugenics

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 27, 2021

Jack Tchen, professor of Public History & Humanities and director at the Clement Price Institute on Ethnicity, Culture and the Modern Experience at Rutgers University Newark and Cara Page, grassroots organizing director of the Anti-Eugenics Project and founding director of the cultural memory project, Changing Frequencies talk about reckoning with how eugenicist ideals are still wrapped up in current social structures, and discuss their work toward what they call an anti-eugenics future.

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