WGS160Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sixties Scoop, Compulsory Sterilization, Eugenics
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Beverly jacobs asked for rewspect and words to turn into actions. Sixties scoop: forced adoption of aboriginal children with out consent from their families. In colonial times, it was important to produce population to spread the nation. Needed people to have power, in the 19th century motherhood was a duty. Eugenics: well born, improve human heredity: positive: british women were encouraged to breed, negative: those who were undesirable were discouraged, don"t breed! Forced sterilization, marriage laws, immigration laws and segregation contributed to eugenics. Used differently when talking about different populations. Margret sanger: established 1st birth control clinic in the us. 20% of the population consumes 80% of the resources: promoted birth control in terms of racial betterment, racism. Immigration: feeble minded and those who were deemed with racial characteristics that were unfit to live in canada (climate, appearance)
