Framing the moron: The social construction of feeble-mindedness in the American eugenic era (Disability History MUP) by Gerald V O'Brien

Author:Gerald V O'Brien [O'Brien, Gerald V]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2015-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

Because of the ‘flood’ of immigrants who were presumed to be feeble-minded or otherwise ‘dysgenic’, the work of the eugenicists was portrayed by some as a Sisyphean task so long as they focused only on the institutionalization and sterilization of citizens. Since increasing numbers of immigrants of ‘questionable’ quality were coming into the country, they argued, these ‘internal’ methods would have only limited impact. Michael Guyer compared this approach to ‘the youth on adventure bent, who was captured by the giant and … was set the task of sweeping out the giant’s stable before sundown’. For just ‘as fast as the refuse was swept out at the door an even greater quantity poured in through the windows so that the sweeper, just in proportion to his zeal, became more and more encumbered with his burden’.97

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