SOCB50H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sexual Sterilization Act Of Alberta, Leilani Muir, White Supremacy
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Some questions ask about ability to synthesize and think. Sexual sterilization act: characteristic of law, hard to remove and expands power over time. Law once it"s on the books, hard to take it off even if it"s highly object-able. She was not the only one that sued the alberta court. She was the first to explicitly sue them. Targeting those with disability/mental: category of being feeble" minded, horrible upbringing. 2) reaction against immigration and economic conditions. 3) once in place expansive and invisible: immigrants (specifically, eastern european pols and ukrainians) Eugenics: upholding the superiority of the anglo protestant way of life, the protection against white blood from being polluted by inferior races, was given a much more violence expression. Almost sexual sterilization act brought into ontario, but was not passed. Alberta was the only province that had the sexual sterilization legalization passed successfully. 28 nov 1930, 15 sedans went to oakville, out of them marched 75 white man.
