Education in America was designed to organize, classify, and sort students according to a definition of ability and human worth provided by a racialized scientism known as eugenics—an ideology whose ultimate goal was the establishment of a superior White race. Eugenicists targeted entire ethnic groups, the urban poor, rural “White trash,” the sexually “deviant,” Blacks, Jews, Native Americans, Asians, Latino/as, and anyone who did not fit with the pseudo-scientifi… More >>
