dr hab. Ewa Łuczak
“The Making of Perfect Americans: Eugenics, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, and Charlie Chaplin”
1. Readings: (suggested order)
- Alexandra Minna Stern, Introduction. Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015. [PDF]
- Stephen Jay Gould, “The Hereditarian Theory of IQ.” The Mismeasure of Man. New York: Norton,1996, pp. 176-263. [PDF]
- Lothrop Stoddard, The Revolt against Civilization. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1922, pp. 1-87. [PDF]
- Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the College de France, 1978-1979. New York: Palgrave, 2004, pp. 1-47. [PDF]
2. Films:
- Tomorrow’s Children (1934) dir. Crane Wilbur https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN17-IKqfnQ
- The Great Gatsby (2013) dir. Baz Luhrmann