User:Mkf51/Race Suicide/Bibliography

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 *  Introduction (Meghan) 
 * I hope to update the current "Introduction," consolidating information presented in the "Coined by?" section and the "Roosevelt" section. I hope to provide a concise, yet comprehensive definition/introduction to this concept, while both preserving existing work and leaving room for additional sections on Racialized Women, Eugenics, and Political/Linguistic Propaganda. MeghanBedi (talk) 04:32, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
 *  Eugenics (Meghan) 
 * This article, as it stands now, largely overlooks the concept of "Race Suicide" as a tool for Eugenic white supremacy. I aim to, through hefty research, contribute to this section by expanding on the ways in which white supremacy and Eugenic propaganda has shaped the way "Race Suicide" is posed as a pressing concern by dominant institutions. Moreover, I will discuss how the concept of Eugenics intersects with "Race Suicide" through a variety of oppressive tactics against marginalized and/or disabled individuals. I will touch on "Population sciences" and "birth rate" studies as a mechanism for white supremacy, forced sterilizations, and eugenic infanticide. I will further discuss the implications of this inherent comradery between Eugenics and "Race Suicide," especially as it concerns black and brown women and disabled folk. MeghanBedi (talk) 04:29, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
 *  Expanding to Racialized Women (Michaela) 
 * I would like to add a “racialized women” section to this page. I feel that the entry as it stands now largely overlooks, first, the way race suicide implicated Black, Asian, and Latinx communities, and more specifically, the women within these communities. I'd initially ground the discussion by outlining the hypersexualization of women and how the stereotype contributes to their racialization. Such racialization hardened fears of race suicide. Hypersexualization was not only socially perpetuated but was systemically ingrained into U.S. institutions. Legislation from the Page Act of 1875 to the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act provides such evidence. Upon the establishment of incarcerating institutions, jails imprisoned women for deviating from norms of sexuality, and black people, especially during the Jim Crow era, were sent to prisons at disproportionate rates. When women of color were incarcerated, they were not sent to reformatories like white women, but rather, they resided in custodial prisons like men. Further, influential scientific figures like Harry H. Laughlin testified before Congress, warning of a race suicide if such dynamics prevailed and immigration law failed to be strong enough. Case law provides additional evidence for hypersexual racialization and race suicide anxieties. Rhinelander v. Rhinelander (1925), for instance, painted a Black woman as a hypersexual “vamp” who took advantage of her white husband, echoing societal fears of race corruption. On the cultural side, films like Black Stork crafted images of seductive enslaved women, while Dragon Lady and Lotus Blossom villainized Asian American women as temptresses.  After outlining the foundations and perpetuations of the women of color as hypersexualized people, I will transition into a more detailed conversation on hysteria and its racializing dynamics, including how the exclusive diagnosis played into, and contributed to, fears of race suicide. Specifically, white, upper-class women were most commonly diagnosed with a disease called “hysteria.” The sickness purportedly caused (white) women to not reproduce and thus endangered the longevity of the white race. It played into racializing dynamics largely because the chief cause was “overcivilization,” which was put in a binary opposition to “savage” — a category for women of color. The categorization and diagnosis were founded in societal and “scientific” ideas that women of color, savage women, were robust, strong, fertile, and threatening — partly related to their hypersexuality, partly related to their innate “savagery.” Thus, conversely, upper-class white women were weak, fragile, nervous, and infertile. These dynamics, where women of color were fertile and birthing while hysteriacal white women were not, exacerbated race suicide concerns. Mkf51 (talk) 15:40, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
 *  Political Implications & Language (Joy) 
 * I'm hoping to add a section that focuses on the use of language and how it might be used with a more political agenda to oppress certain groups. I’m planning on expanding on how race suicide has been manipulated for political gain and/or motivations and also how the use of its language has been used in academia and other areas to further a political stance, such as with 'political linguistics', 'media linguistics', and 'language politics'. The current article has some discussion surrounding Roosevelt and his speech, so I may tie it into that section and related examples from history. It appears that as the article is now, it does not fully address the these potential implications of "race suicide" and related terms, and I think it would be helpful to fill the gap on how word choice can explicitly or implicitly affect the way people view certain things. Thus, I am planning on touching briefly on how language can influence perception or thought, such as with 'linguistic relativity/determinism', as well. Joyy.c (talk) 15:34, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

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