Using archives to imagine our way through the past into the future
A tour through the roots, history, and legacy of eugenics and race science, from the Beehive Riots of 1820s Boston through physical anthropology, Francis Galton, Ellis Island, the American Plan, the Tuskegee experiments, the Nazis, through to the present. Note: some of this episode deals with human sexuality, and some of it is disturbing.
A short, short introduction to the Imaginary Histories podcast. Our first full episode will be on the Salem Witch Trials and a history of mass hysteria in America (and the sound quality will be much better than this, I promise). I hope you join me!
The song in the background is "Burning Van," by Big Mean Sound Machine, performed live on WFMU's Transpacific Sound Paradise, September 19, 2015; licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 license.