Sources for Old Fears New Foes
List of sources used for the Old Fears / New Foes Series
Writing history requires examining sources and using them to make sense about some events in the past. We have elsewhere argued that historians create forgeries of the past through the narratives they use to explain an event.
We decided to publish this article in an effort to be transparent about our work and the sources we used. We did not want to clutter the other articles in the series with this long list.
Primary Sources
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Chinese Exclusion Case. (1889). The Differences of Race Added to the Difficulties: The Chinese Exclusion Case, 130 U.S. 581, 1889. In Vile, J. R. (2016). American Immigration and Citizenship: A Documentary History. Rowman and Littlefield.
Coolidge, C. (1912). Inhabitants of the Right Kind, Distributed in the Right Place: Whose Country Is This? In Vile, J. R. (2016). American Immigration and Citizenship: A Documentary History. Rowman and Littlefield.
Conklin, E., & Radcliffe College. Library, former owner. (1929). Heredity and environment in the development of men (6th ed. rev. ed.). Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Davenport, C. (1911). Heredity in Relation to Eugenics. Originally by Henry Holt. In Witowski, J.A., J. R. Inglis. 2008. Davenport’s Dream: 21st Century Reflections on Heredity and Eugenics. Cold Spring Harbor Press.
Davenport, C. (1912). Questionnaire on the Sterilisation of Defectives- Eugenics Section of the American Breeders Association. American Philosophical Society, Dav, B D27, Ser 2,letters. The Eugenics Archive. ID: 534. http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/images/eugenics/thumbnails/534t.gif
George, H. (1869). The Thing Edge of the Wedge: Henry George, The Chinese in California, New York Tribune, May 1, 1869. In Vile, J. R. (2016). American Immigration and Citizenship: A Documentary History. Rowman and Littlefield.
Goddard, H. (1917). Mental Tests and the Immigrant. The Journal of Delinquency: Vol. II (5). 1
Goddard, H. (1919). The Kallikak Family : A Study In The Heredity Of Feeblemindedness. New York, NY: Macmillan Company.
Grant, M. (1916). The Passing of the Great Race. In Largent, M.A. (2004). Sourcebook on History of Evolution: Revised Printing. University of Puget Sound.
Grant, M. (1924). The Racial Transformation of America. The North American Review, 219(820), 343–352.
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Laughlin, H. H. (1920). Biological Aspects of Immigration. Harry H. Laughlin testimony before the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. House of Representatives Sixty-Sixth Congress Second Session April 16–17. The Harry H. Laughlin Papers, Truman State University, papers, C-2–6,6. ID: 1113. http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/image_header.pl?id=1113&printable=1&detailed=0
Laughlin, H. H. (1922). Analysis of America’s Modern Melting Pot,” Harry H. Laughlin testimony before the House Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. n House of Representatives Sixty-Seventh Congress Third Session November 21, 1922 Serial 7-C Statement of Harry H. Laughlin [graphic] Washington Government Printing Office 1923. The Harry H. Laughlin Papers, Truman State University, papers, C-2–6,6. iD: 1123. The Eugenics Archive. http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/html/eugenics/static/images/1123.html
Laughlin, H. H. (1922b). The Senate is Still Nordic. The Harry H. Laughlin Papers, Truman State University, papers, D-4–2. ID: 1192. The Eugenics Archive. http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/html/eugenics/static/images/1192.html
Laughlin, H. H. (1924). “Europe as an emigrant-exporting continent,” Harry H. Laughlin testimony before the House Committee, including Immigration Restriction Act. The Harry H. Laughlin Papers, Truman State University, papers, C-2–6,6. ID: 1140.
Laughlin, H. H. (1926). Eugenical Sterilisation in America. In Largent, M.A. (2004). Sourcebook on History of Evolution: Revised Printing. University of Puget Sound
Laughlin, H. H. (1927). Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, research study on immigratio. The Harry H. Laughlin Papers, Truman State University, papers, D-4–2n. iD: 1200. The Eugenics Archive. http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/html/eugenics/static/images/1200.html
Laughlin, H. H. (1929). Letter to Hon L Douglas. A needed amendment to census bill: 1929. The Harry H. Laughlin Papers, Truman State University, document, C-4–6. Doc ID: 1051.
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Laughlin, H. H. (1932). “Crime and race descent,” 3rd International Eugenics Conference. The Harry H. Laughlin Papers, Truman State University, photograph, Blk Photo 1,54. ID 1072. Eugenics Archive. http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/image_header.pl?id=1072&detailed=0
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Journal Articles
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Allerfeldt, K. (2010). “And we Got Here First”: Albert Johnson, National Origins and Self Interest in the Immigration Debate of the 1920s. Journal of Contemporary History: Vol 45(1), 7–26. DOI: 10.1177/0022009409348019
Ngai, M. M. (1999). The Architecture of Race in American Immigration Law: A Reexamination of the Immigration Act of 1924. The Journal of American History.
Scholarly Manuscripts
Bruinius, H. (2006). Better For All the World: The Secret History of Forced Sterilisation and America’s Quest for Racial Purity. Alfred Knopp Press.
Cinotto, S. (2013). The Italian American Table: Food, Family, and Community in New York City. University of Illinois Press.
Coffey, M. K. (2006). The American Adonis: A Natural History of the Average American man 1921–32- in Currell, S., C. Cogdell. 2006. Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s. Ohio University Press.
Cogdell, C. (2004). Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s. University of Pennsylvania Press.
Connelly, M. (2008). Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population. Belknapp Harvard University Press.
Hinnershitz, S. (2016) Demanding an ‘adequate solution:’ the American Legion, the Immigration Act of 1924, and the politics of exclusion, Immigrants & Minorities, 34:1, 1–21, DOI: 10.1080/02619288.2015.1065737
Jackson, J.P., N. W. Weidman (ed. M. A. Largent). (2006). Race, Racism, and Science: Social Impact and Interaction. Rutgers University Press.
Kline, W. (2005). Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom. University of California Press.
Ladner, B. E. 2006. The Descent of Yoknapatawpha: Eugenics and the Origins of Faulkner’s World. Currell, S., C. Cogdell. 2006. Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s. Ohio University Press.
LaGumina, S. J. (2018). Discrimination, Prejudice, and Italian American History. In The Routledge History of Italian Americans. Ed. William J. Conell and Stanislao G. Pugliese. Routledge Press.
Largent, M. A. (2011). Breeding Contempt: The History of Coerced Sterilisation in the United States. Rutgers University Press.
Largent, M. A. (2012). Vaccine: The Debate in Modern America. Johns Hopkins University Press. Lombardo, P. A. (2008). Three Generations, No Imbeciles: eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v Bell. The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Marinari, M. (2017). In the Name of God.. and in the interest of the country: The Cold War, Firebug Policy, and Italians’ Mobilisation against Immigration Restriction. In: Ruberto, L.E., J. Sciorra., D.R. Gabaccia. 2017. New Italian Migrations to the United States Vol1: Politics and History since 1945. University of Illinois Press.
Ngai, M. M. (2014). Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America. Princeton University Press.
Powaski, R. E.(1998). Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union 1917–1991. Oxford University Press.
Raz, M. 2013. The Lobotomy Letters: The Making of American Psychosurgery. University of Rochester Press.
Reggiani, A. H. (2006). Drilling Eugenics into People’s Minds: Expertise, Public Opinion, and Biopolitics in Alexis Carrel’s Man, the Unknown in Currell, S., C. Cogdell. 2006. Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s. Ohio State University Press.
Rosen, C. (2004). Preaching Eugenics: Religious Leaders and the American Eugenics Movement. Oxford University Press.
Shenton, J. P. (1990). Ethnicity and Immigration. In The New American History. Ed. Foner, E. (1997). Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Smith, A. M. (2006). Monsters in Bed: The Horror Film Eugenics of Dracula and Frankenstein in Currell, S., C. Cogdell. 2006. Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s. Ohio State University Press.
Soper, K. (2006). Classical Bodies versus the Criminal Carnival: Eugenics Ideology in 1930’s Popular Art in Currell, S., C. Cogdell. 2006. Popular Eugenics: National Efficiency and American Mass Culture in the 1930s. Ohio State University Press.
Spiro, J. P. (2009). Defending the Master Race: Conservation, Eugenics, and The Legacy of Madison Grant. Vermont University Press.
Stepan, N. L. (1991). The Hour of Eugenics: Race, Gender, and Nation in Latin America. Cornell University Press.
Stern, A. M. (2005). Eugenic Nation: Faults & Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America. University of California Press.
Sumner, W.G. (1894). The Absurd Effort to Make the World Over. In Largent, M.A. (2004). Sourcebook on History of Evolution: Revised Printing. University of Puget Sound.
Trent, J. W. Jr. (1994). Inventing the Feeble Mind: A History of Mental Retardation in the United States. Oxford University Press.
Vellon, P. G. (2018). Italian Americans and Race during the Era of Mass Immigration. In The Routledge History of Italian Americans. Ed. William J. Conell and Stanislao G. Pugliese. Routledge Press.
Zenderland, L. (2001). Measuring Minds: Henry Herbert Goddard and the Origins of American Intelligence Testing. Cambridge University Press.
Other Books
Bowler, P. (1989). The Mendelian Revolution: The Emergence of Hereditarian Concepts in Science and Society. The Athlone Press.
Danziger, K. (1997). Putting Intelligence on the Map. In Naming the Mind: How Psychology Found its Language. SAGE.
Fancher, R.E. (1985). The Intelligence Men: Makers of the IQ Controversy. Norton & Company.
Harrington, A. (2019). Mind Fixers: Psychiatry’s Troubled Search for the Biology of Mental Illness. W.W. Norton & Company. New York / London
Issitt, M.L. (2018). Immigration: Opinions Throughout History. Grey House Publishing.
LaGumina, S. (1973). WOP: A documentary history of anti-Italian discrimination in the United States (Ethnic prejudice in America series). San Francisco: Straight Arrow Books; distributed by Quick Fox, New York.
LaGumina, S. J. (2010). Prejudice and Discrimination: The Italian American Experience Yesterday and Today. In Anti-Italianism: I talian and Italian American Studies, pp. 107–115. (2010) New York: Palgrave Macmillan US.
Messina, E. G. (2010). Perversions of Knowledge: Confronting Racist Ideologies behind Intelligence Testing.. In Anti-Italianism: Italian and Italian American Studies, pp. 107–115. (2010) New York: Palgrave Macmillan US.
Okrent, D. (2019). The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics, and the Law that Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants out of America. Scribner.
Paul, D.B. (1995). Controlling Human Heredity; 1865 to the present. Humanity Books an imprint of Prometheus Books.
Pressman, J. D. (1986). Uncertain Promise: Psychosurgery and the Development of Psychiatry in America 1935 to 1955. University of Pennsylvania. Dissertation
Vellon, P. (2010). “Between White Men and Negroes”: The perception of Southern Italian Immigrants through the Lens of Italian Lynchings. In Anti-Italianism: Italian and Italian American Studies, pp. 107–115. (2010) New York: Palgrave Macmillan US.
Other
Orlic, C. (2019). Cutting Crime: Making Honest Men Through Science. Submitted to Dr. Kuriyama as a final project Fall 2019. Harvard University.
USDep.1957. US Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. A Statistical Abstract Supplement, Historical Statistics of the US Colonial Times to 1957, 56–57. https://www.mtholyoke.edu/~molna22a/classweb/politics/images/italian%20population%20c hart%20001.jpg
USDept. 1969. US Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalisation Services 84th annual edition.
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/~molna22a/classweb/politics/images/italian%20population%20c hart%20001.jpg
Authors: Christian Orlic and Lucas Heili
