Tag: eugenics
Letter to the editor: Open letter to the Occidental College Board...
Dear Occidental College Board of Trustees: We, the undersigned Occidental College faculty, staff members, and administrators, urge the Occidental College Board of Trustees to revoke...
ASOC Listening Session, Direct Action Committee confront institutional history in wake...
Associated Students of Occidental College (ASOC) representatives led by ASOC President Jacques Lesure hosted the first meeting for the ASOC Special Committee for Direct...
Occidental community grapples with Paul Popenoe degree
A recent op-ed written by E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics and professor of Urban & Environmental Policy (UEP) Peter Dreier, "Should Oxy rescind an honorary...
Should Oxy rescind an honorary degree to a racist recipient?
In his book “Applied Eugenics,” written in 1918, Paul Popenoe wrote: “No matter how much one may admire some of the Negro's individual traits,...