IN class workshop (Thursday, February 26):
Eugenics Nation Second Edition
- Why do we continue to feel the effects of the eugenics systems put in place over 150 years ago?
- What does contemporary racial clarification look like and how does it effect us?
Read and research racism and eugenics using the resources enclosed as well as your own life and current events. You can look up the historical images on line via Cold Harbor Spring as well as pedigree charts, family trees, maps of segregation, charts of equality in schools, and work places and use the National Institute of Health’s maps: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/mapview/maps.cgi?ORG=hum&MAPS=ideogr,est,loc&LINKS=ON&VERBOSE=ON&CHR=2
Create an image (Using drawing, painting, photo shop, collage) that could be used for the cover of the next edition of the book Eugenics Nations and visually represent the issues of our day.
Can you make an image that would be striking enough to make the population think about the problem and see the link between the past and the present?
References:
Cold Harbor Springs: http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/
Science and Inhumanity: The Kaiser-Wilhelm/Max Planck Society
William E. Seidelman MD
https://ce399eugenics.wordpress.com/2011/09/08/science-and-inhumanity-the-kaiser-wilhelmmax-planck-society/
Readings:
Race: Are We So Different November 5, 2012
by Alan H. Goodman (Author), Yolanda T. Moses (Author), Joseph L. Jones
Chapter 14,15, 16
Eugenic Nation
Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America
Alexandra Minna Stern
Chapter 1,2
Portland artist and professor Geraldine Ondrizek has served on the Reed College faculty since 1994. She earned her MFA from the University of Washington, Seattle, and her BFA from Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh. For the last twenty years she has created architectural-scaled works that house medical and biological information. Since 2001 she has worked with geneticists and biologists to gather and compose images of human cellular tissue and genetic tests that relate to ethnic identity and disease. (From: http://academic.reed.edu/art/faculty/ondrizek/)
Geraldine Ondrizek: Shades of WhiteSeptember 02, 2014 to December 14, 2014 – Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon