La promoción de la eugenesia en México a inicios del siglo XX
At the beginning of the twentieth century, the eugenics movement become popular in various parts of the world. Mexico, like many other Latin American countries, considered it appropriate to analyze the eugenic knowledge of the time and then apply it to the country’s population. eugenic knowledge of...
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| author | Víctor Octavio Hernández Ávila |
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| description | At the beginning of the twentieth century, the eugenics movement become popular in various parts of the world. Mexico, like many other Latin American countries, considered it appropriate to analyze the eugenic knowledge of the time and then apply it to the country’s population. eugenic knowledge of the time and then apply it to the country’s population. To achieve this, they considered that their main tool would be a scientific popularization magazine. The objective of this article is to analyze the main characteristics of the Eugenesia magazine and to link them with the direct effects it had on the promotion of eugenics in Mexico between 1930 and 1945, using a qualitative methodology, through a discourse analysis of the texts of the Eugenesia magazine. It was concluded that eugenics was easily promoted in Mexico, largely because of the racist and hierarchical logic that had been established in the country at that time, on the other hand, it kept the general characteristics of eugenics in other parts of the world, information was promoted without scientific support. information was promoted without scientific support. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d8c6c2336ecc44208f9b1c58beb27d6f2025-01-08T15:09:32ZengUniversidad de CaldasEleuthera2011-45322463-14692024-01-012616179https://doi.org/10.17151/eleu.2024.26.1.4La promoción de la eugenesia en México a inicios del siglo XXVíctor Octavio Hernández Ávila0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3102-3083Universidad Autónoma del Estado de MéxicoAt the beginning of the twentieth century, the eugenics movement become popular in various parts of the world. Mexico, like many other Latin American countries, considered it appropriate to analyze the eugenic knowledge of the time and then apply it to the country’s population. eugenic knowledge of the time and then apply it to the country’s population. To achieve this, they considered that their main tool would be a scientific popularization magazine. The objective of this article is to analyze the main characteristics of the Eugenesia magazine and to link them with the direct effects it had on the promotion of eugenics in Mexico between 1930 and 1945, using a qualitative methodology, through a discourse analysis of the texts of the Eugenesia magazine. It was concluded that eugenics was easily promoted in Mexico, largely because of the racist and hierarchical logic that had been established in the country at that time, on the other hand, it kept the general characteristics of eugenics in other parts of the world, information was promoted without scientific support. information was promoted without scientific support.https://revistasojs.ucaldas.edu.co/index.php/eleuthera/article/view/9583/7657eugenicsmiscegenationracismscientific disseminationbiological determinism |
| spellingShingle | Víctor Octavio Hernández Ávila La promoción de la eugenesia en México a inicios del siglo XX Eleuthera eugenics miscegenation racism scientific dissemination biological determinism |
| title | La promoción de la eugenesia en México a inicios del siglo XX |
| title_full | La promoción de la eugenesia en México a inicios del siglo XX |
| title_fullStr | La promoción de la eugenesia en México a inicios del siglo XX |
| title_full_unstemmed | La promoción de la eugenesia en México a inicios del siglo XX |
| title_short | La promoción de la eugenesia en México a inicios del siglo XX |
| title_sort | la promocion de la eugenesia en mexico a inicios del siglo xx |
| topic | eugenics miscegenation racism scientific dissemination biological determinism |
| url | https://revistasojs.ucaldas.edu.co/index.php/eleuthera/article/view/9583/7657 |
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