![]() ![]() ![]() Such research largely fizzled, never materialized or actively undermined racist hypotheses however, the construction of migrants as poisonous and biologically inferior seeped into popular and political culture nonetheless. Shah describes a frenzied quest among race theorists to find scientific justification for their ideologies, a silver bullet that could put a stop to immigration. As millions of immigrants from Europe, Asia, the Caribbean and Central America arrived at New York’s ports, worried elites such as Madison Grant stoked panic about “hybridization” and the “germplasm” of immigrant bodies, which would supposedly contaminate the stock of the nation. The book traces how this early emphasis on the geographical differences between species helped give rise to “race science” and the eugenics movement of the 19th and 20th centuries. ![]()
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