CRITICAL MASSES: AMERICAN POPULATIONISM, EUGENICS, AND WAR, 1945 TO 1975

dc.contributor.advisor Eagle, Jonna
dc.contributor.author Barsocchini, Robert Joseph
dc.contributor.department American Studies
dc.date.accessioned 2019-07-02T17:46:29Z
dc.date.available 2019-07-02T17:46:29Z
dc.date.issued 2019
dc.description.degree M.A.
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10125/63134
dc.subject American studies
dc.subject Eugenics
dc.subject Genocide
dc.subject Korean War
dc.subject Overpopulation
dc.subject Sterilization
dc.subject Vietnam War
dc.title CRITICAL MASSES: AMERICAN POPULATIONISM, EUGENICS, AND WAR, 1945 TO 1975
dc.type Thesis
dcterms.abstract This thesis argues that American thinkers in the post-war period (1945 to 1975) who diagnosed global overpopulation made implicit suggestions that “population problems” could be addressed by raising death rates, such as through war. I illustrate that the fear of population growth, which became ubiquitous in the United States during this time, largely derives from eugenically influenced concerns over losing power relative to colonized people of color around the world, but that these concerns also predate eugenics. I then apply this lens to readings of the Korean and Vietnam wars, arguing that populationist thinking is evident in these campaigns and that its prevalence at this time likely intensified American violence and increased a focus on eliminating large numbers of people, including civilians.
dcterms.description M.A. Thesis. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 2019
dcterms.extent 122 pages
dcterms.language eng
dcterms.publisher University of Hawai'i at Manoa
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