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Economists and Eugenics: Progressive Era Racism and its (Jewish) Discontents

Luca FioritoTiziana Foresti

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: American Progressive EraRacemedia_common.quotation_subjectJudaism05 social sciencesImmigrationImmigration06 humanities and the artsAnti-SemitismEdwin R. A. SeligmanRacism0506 political science060104 historyEugenicsRhetoric050602 political science & public administration0601 history and archaeologyProgressive eraSociologyReligious studiesPeriod (music): American Progressive Era Edwin R. A. Seligman Immigration Race Anti-Semitismmedia_common

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This chapter analyzes the contribution to the debates on labor and immigration of a group of Jewish academicians and reformers who, during the second half of the Progressive Era, explicitly took a stance against the racialist and eugenic rhetoric of the period. This group includes first-rank economists like Edwin R. A. Seligman, Jacob H. Hollander, and Emanuel A. Goldenweiser; influential field specialists such as Isaac A. Hourwich and Isaac M. Rubinow; and relatively less known figures like Max J. Kohler and Samuel K. Joseph. By focusing on the voices of these dissenters, this chapter enriches the emerging picture of Progressive Era eugenic and racial thought.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2017-01-01
10.1007/978-3-319-61714-5http://hdl.handle.net/11568/919918