03781nam a22004935i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001300172050001300185072001500198072001500213072002300228072001800251100015700269245014600426250001800572264007900590300004300669336002600712337002600738338003600764347002400800505024200824520176901066650004502835650002702880650003002907650003002937650003002967650003002997710003403027773002603061776003603087776003603123776003603159856004603195912001403241912001503255999001703270978-3-031-63553-3DE-He21320251030112637.0cr nn 008mamaa240719s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830316355339978-3-031-63553-37 a10.1007/978-3-031-63553-32doi 4aJK1-9993 4aJL1-3899 7aJP2bicssc 7a1K2bicssc 7aPOL0400002bisacsh 7aJPx1K2thema1 aO'Brien, Shannon Bow.eauthor.0(orcid)0000-0002-2991-33431https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2991-33434aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut98088010aEugenics in American Political Lifeh[electronic resource] :bHow the Politics of Superiority Still Shape Us Today /cby Shannon Bow O'Brien.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXIX, 125 p. 1 illus.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 aChapter 1: Eugenics Origins -- Chapter 2: Mammy Statues, Power, and the Importance of Framing -- Chapter 3: Immigration Laws and Eugenics -- Chapter 4: Donald Trump’s Rhetoric and how Eugenics Frames His World -- Chapter 5: Conclusion.  aThe book explores the development of the American eugenics movement and how it still plays a role in American life. Building on a brief overview of the concept of eugenics, Shannon Bow O’Brien charts the foundations of the ideas, significant influences, and influencers of the movement in the last 19th and early 20th centuries. She discusses how these ideals and social life shaped American culture and encouraged attitudes toward racial and ethnic biases, including immigration policies in that period. O’Brien examines how the founding of the United States of America was built on unwanted individuals from the United Kingdom; transported felons and indentured servants were many of the original colonists. As the population forged its new nation, many of these individuals were the focus of restrictive immigration policies that sought to amend the identity of the American citizen and sought to define acceptable roles for Black persons within American society. Faithful slave monuments provided physical models to help engrain these roles within American life. O’Brien traces the development of the Mammy statue movement and its intersectionality with the restrictive immigration laws. Finally, she turns to the rhetoric of Donald Trump and contextualizes his speech in the ideology of the superiority of White Nordic nativism within American life. Shannon Bow O’Brien is Associate Professor of Instruction at the University of Texas at Austin in the Government Department. She is the author of Why Presidential Speech Locations Matter: Analyzing Speechmaking from Truman to Obama and Donald Trump (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018) and Donald Trump and the Kayfabe Presidency: Professional Wrestling Rhetoric in the White House (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). . 0aAmericaxPolitics and government.969475 0aWorld politics.958105 0aPolitical science.95871414aAmerican Politics.96947724aPolitical History.96781724aPolitical Science.9587142 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303163552608iPrinted edition:z978303163554008iPrinted edition:z978303163555740uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-63553-3  aZDB-2-POS  aZDB-2-SXPI  c61736d61736