Human Wreckage from Foreign Lands - A Study of Ethnic Victims of the Alberta Sterilization Act
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https://doi.org/10.29173/cons10496Abstract
On March 21st, 1928, the Alberta government passed the Alberta Sexual Sterilization Act. Between 1928 and 1972, the Alberta Eugenics Board used the Act to sterilize an estimated 2,822 ‘mentally-defective’ Albertans. This paper examines the role that ethnicity played in the sterilization process, arguing that nativist attitudes influenced both the Canadian eugenics movement and the development of the Act.
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2011-06-07
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Keith, E. (2011). Human Wreckage from Foreign Lands - A Study of Ethnic Victims of the Alberta Sterilization Act. Constellations, 2(2), 81–89. https://doi.org/10.29173/cons10496
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Grappling with Racism in History