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Eugenics is a term many Europeans used in attempt to improve the human population. There are two types of Eugenics which is positive and negative. Positive eugenics is when reproduction amongst certain people is encouraged while negative eugenics is discouraged in people with less desirable traits specifically speaking African American women. Many African American minorities were given sterilizations without their consent, totaling to over 75,000. Sterilizations is a surgery used to make a person unable to reproduce. This was a form of population control. During this time European Americans feared that the African American population would exceed their population. These unauthorized sterilizations could have also been considered a black genocide.

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