SYMHC Classics: The Kallikaks and the Eugenicists

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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🗓️ 4 March 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In 2017, the show covered the fears, prejudices and societal issues that drove the eugenics movement in the U.S., which focused on identifying, sequestering and even sterilizing people who were deemed to be "unfit."

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0:00.0	I'm Amber Reffett and I'm her gorgeous sister, Lacey Lamar.
0:03.2	If in fact Lacey is not that gorgeous.
0:05.2	Amber, get on with it.
0:06.2	Okay everybody, we have exciting news to share.
0:08.4	We're teaming up with Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network to bring you our
0:11.8	Brit new podcast called The Amber and Lacey Lacey and Amber Show.
0:15.0	We did it.
0:16.0	We sold a bunch of books, we conquered late night and now we'll play fun quizzes and games
0:19.8	with friends and take you along for the ride.
0:22.4	Listen to the Amber and Lacey, Lacey and Amber Show on Will Ferrell's Big Money
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0:33.1	Happy Saturday.
0:35.1	Recently on the show, we talked about Ellen Swallow Richards and one of the things that came
0:39.9	up in that episode was the Eugenics Movement.
0:43.4	The Eugenics Movement has come up several times on the show over the last year or so and
0:48.4	every time we've tried to give kind of a straightforward but also very brief explanation
0:53.0	of what that movement was all about.
0:55.1	That is really not something you can just be thorough or nuanced about in a couple of
0:59.4	sentences.
1:00.9	We do have a whole episode about this though which came out on August 9th, 2017 and it
1:06.4	is today's Saturday Plastic.
1:09.0	One of the things we talk about in this episode is people being pressured or coerced into
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