Eugenika di Amerika Serikat: Perbedaan antara revisi

 

[[Eugenika]] merupakan seperangkat keyakinan dan praktik yang bertujuan untuk meningkatkan kualitas [[genetika]] suatu [[populasi penduduk dunia]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/glossary=eugenics|title=Eugenics|date=26 September 2010|website=Unified Medical Language System (Psychological Index Terms)|publisher=National Library of Medicine}}</ref><ref name="Galton1904">{{Cite journal|last=Galton, Francis|author-link=Francis Galton|date=July 1904|title=Eugenics: Its Definition, Scope, and Aims|url=http://www.mugu.com/galton/essays/1900-1911/galton-1904-am-journ-soc-eugenics-scope-aims.htm|journal=The American Journal of Sociology|volume=X|issue=1|pages=82, 1st paragraph|bibcode=1904Natur..70...82.|doi=10.1038/070082a0|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071103082723/http://galton.org/essays/1900-1911/galton-1904-am-journ-soc-eugenics-scope-aims.htm|archive-date=3 November 2007|access-date=27 December 2010|quote=Eugenics is the science which deals with all influences that improve the inborn qualities of a race; also with those that develop them to the utmost advantage.}}</ref> yang memainkan peran penting dalam sejarah dan budaya [[Amerika Serikat]] sebelum keterlibatannya dalam [[Perang Dunia II]].<ref name="SusanCurrell">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=WRL6MbBO024C&pg=PA86&dq=the+eugenics+industry#v=onepage&q&f=false|title=Popular eugenics: national efficiency and American mass culture in the 1930s|last=Susan Currell|publisher=Ohio University Press|year=2006|isbn=978-0-8214-1691-4|pages=2–3|access-date=18 July 2011}}</ref>