“Improving the Race”: The Discourse of Science and Eugenics in Local News Coverage, 1905–1922

Grant, Rachel; Mislan, Cristina

doi:10.1080/08821127.2020.1830627

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“…Some women, such as Italian, Irish, Greek, and Eastern European Jewish and Christian immigrants who were participants in WTUL or the National Consumers League, were not thought of as White in the first decade of the twentieth century. Nonetheless, they were categorized as being innately different from and superior to Black people in the racist hierarchy of eugenists’ pseudoscience that permeated popular culture, journalism, government, law, medicine, social work, and academia in the period under discussion (Grant & Mislan, 2020; Kevles, 1985; Leonard, 2016).…”

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A Microhistory of Cross-Class Feminism in New York City, 1907–1911: The Activism of Carola Woerishoffer

Simon

2022

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This microhistory is a study of one woman's efforts in New York City between 1907 and 1911 to join the efforts of three local feminist organizations—Greenwich House, the National Consumers League, and the Women's Trade Union League (WTUL)—that were combining the energies of women from the industrial working class, middle class, and upper class in sustained drives to improve the working conditions and wages of women factory and steam laundry workers. One woman who devoted herself to these three organizational cross-class initiatives was Carola Woerishoffer (1885–1911). Microhistory is a method of studying the past that makes use of remnants of evidence still available about people, organizations, or communities that have been partially or completely forgotten.

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Section: Race and Social Classmentioning

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A Microhistory of Cross-Class Feminism in New York City, 1907–1911: The Activism of Carola Woerishoffer

Simon

2022

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“Improving the Race”: The Discourse of Science and Eugenics in Local News Coverage, 1905–1922

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A Microhistory of Cross-Class Feminism in New York City, 1907–1911: The Activism of Carola Woerishoffer

A Microhistory of Cross-Class Feminism in New York City, 1907–1911: The Activism of Carola Woerishoffer

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