Eugenics, race discrimination, and anti-immigration laws in the United States, James Watson

Interviewee: James Watson. Eugenic data, collected by Harry Laughlin, fed into racial prejudice, and provided the scientific rationale for restricting immigration from southern and eastern Europe. Here James Watson discusses how eugenicists reacted to the problem of mental illness and sought to lessen the threat of the "unfit" to the United States. (DNAi Location: Chronicle > Threat of the unfit > Threats > Immigration restriction)

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