Dr. Paul Popenoe, Director, Institute of Family Relations, Los Angeles [promotional brochure]; [TLS Copy from Loran D. Osborn, Institute of Family Relations Educational Director to Secretary, YMCA, Brown University, dated October 6, 1938].
by [RACISM & EUGENICS]. POPENOE, Dr. Paul
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Los Angeles, CA & [Providence, RI]: The Institute of Family Relations, 607 South Hill St., 1938. Two pieces. 1st - 8vo. [4 pp (unpaginated).], self-printed softcovers, photo illust. of Popenoe on front cover (crease fold from mailing, minor dustsoiling); 2nd - 4to. 8.5 x 11 in. [1 leaf]. TLS on letterhead, “Copy” and Osborn’s initials in ink (crease folds, wear & minor tears at folds, some age toning), still VG- set. These two scarce original promotional brochure and TLS reflect the ongoing efforts by prominent eugenicist Paul Popenoe, dubbed “the father of marriage counseling” to spread and inculcate followers into his racist eugenics policies. The letter to the YMCA at Brown University to drum up speaking tour dates from the Institute’s Educational Director, Loran Osborn writes that “his [Popenoe’s] fee is $100 per day . . . and he is perfectly willing to speak two of three times in a day. . . .” His speaking subjects included “A Biological View of the Jewish Problem,” “The Progress of Eugenics,” “Should Women Compete with Men,” and others in the same vein. Popenoe advocated sterilization for those who were deemed unfit to reproduce and marriage counseling for healthy “White” couples, and whose lectures often stated that “continued limitation of offspring in the White race simily inites the Black, Brown, and other races to finish the work already begun by Birth Control and reduce the “Whites” to a subject race. Most of Popenoe’s beliefs became institutionalized into conservative Christian movements and evangelical churches in Southern California, and his Institute of Family Relations influenced generations of marriage counselors. See; Chariot, Washington & Hall, Exhumed: Reckoning with the History of Eugenics in Marriage and Family Therapy, The Family Journal, Vol. 30, Issue 4 (June 1, 2022).
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- Title
- Dr. Paul Popenoe, Director, Institute of Family Relations, Los Angeles [promotional brochure]; [TLS Copy from Loran D. Osborn, Institute of Family Relations Educational Director to Secretary, YMCA, Brown University, dated October 6, 1938].
- Author
- [RACISM & EUGENICS]. POPENOE, Dr. Paul
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- Paperback
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- The Institute of Family Relations, 607 South Hill St.,
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- Los Angeles, CA & [Providence, RI]:
- Date Published
- 1938.
- Keywords
- Racism, Eugenics, Marriage Counseling, Counseling, Dr. Paul Popenoe, California, Southern California, Letters, TLS, Typed Letter Signed, Institute of Family Relations, Promotional Brochures, Advertising
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