The first reading, “Eugenic Nation”, talks about how in the twentieth century the government when about with the idea of “positive eugenics” in which they wanted propagate the fittest members of society all while pprevent the proliferation of what they considered to be “lower breeds”, or “negative eugenics”. The idea of cleansing the gene pool wasn’t something that was started int he US, but from the Nazis originally in WWII. But despite the wake of the Holocaust, sterilization laws wouldn’t be taken down until decades later int he 60’s and 70’s during the civil rights and feminist movements challenged the theoretical underpinning of eugenics.

The second reading, “Race”, talks about segregation of those who were not considered “white american people” and how they were treated in the country. Examples from the earl 900’s are thing such as Jim Crow laws which segregated Africans from the Whites in all public places, and the segregation of Blacks, Latinos, and Asians from schools to not segregate them in white schools. It also touched upon the case of race an wealth in which white people were considered to have more money and live a more proper homes, while Africans were considered to be always poor and live in terrible places in the city.