Ewa Łuczak

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