{"id":62909,"date":"2022-02-01T18:53:07","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T18:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62909"},"modified":"2022-02-13T21:44:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T21:44:47","slug":"eugenics-admixture-and-multiculturalism-in-twentieth-century-northern-sweden-contesting-disability-and-sami-genocide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62909","title":{"rendered":"Eugenics, Admixture, and Multiculturalism in Twentieth-Century Northern Sweden: Contesting Disability and S\u00e1mi Genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eugenics, Admixture, and Multiculturalism in Twentieth-Century Northern Sweden: Contesting Disability and S\u00e1mi Genocide<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Terry-Lee Marttinen<\/a>, <\/strong>Independent Researcher\/Writer<\/p>\n

Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies<\/a>
February 2022
28 pages
DOI: 10.13140\/RG.2.2.32472.37125<\/a><\/p>\n

This article examines twentieth-century northern Swedish geographical isolate studies in Norrbotten Province<\/a> involving Torne-Finns<\/a> and northern S\u00e1mi<\/a>, who have historically shared pronatalist Laestadian<\/a> religious beliefs pathologized by mainstream eugenicists<\/a>. Deemed a sign of religious fanaticism, Laestadianism was associated with the stigmatization of Torne-Finns and S\u00e1mi people and conceptualized as an early sign of schizophrenia<\/a>. Geneticists, as an outgrowth of early twentieth-century eugenics, structured schizophrenia as a genetic disease caused by first-cousin marriage. These consanguineous marriages<\/a>, which were reported as prevalent in Torne-Finn and S\u00e1mi reindeer-herding communities practicing Laestadianism, legitimated race-based sterilization of psychitrized Tornedalian and S\u00e1mi women. Similarly, the Swedish State Institute for Race Biology, established in 1922 by Herman Lundborg<\/a>, advanced reorganizing race along family lines and populations, which supported gendered disability and S\u00e1mi genocide. Torne-Finn, as well as S\u00e1mi, religious minority women, who were sterilized at first admission to psychiatric facilities, require redress for colonial violence. Current academic and direct-to-consumer admixture research on Finnish and S\u00e1mi peoples is recognized as upholding colonial logics of difference in Swedish multicultural policies. This, in turn, results in ongoing gendered genocide. It is concluded that in a radical break from eugenic theories, major psychoses associated with common infections lie in the neglected half of the human genome<\/a> rather than according to classical genetic rules.<\/p>\n

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Eugenics, Admixture, and Multiculturalism in Twentieth-Century Northern Sweden: Contesting Disability and S\u00e1mi Genocide Terry-Lee Marttinen, Independent Researcher\/Writer Journal of Critical Mixed Race StudiesFebruary 202228 pagesDOI: 10.13140\/RG.2.2.32472.37125 This article examines twentieth-century northern Swedish geographical isolate studies in Norrbotten Province involving Torne-Finns and northern S\u00e1mi, who have historically shared pronatalist Laestadian religious beliefs pathologized by mainstream eugenicists. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28,459,1196],"tags":[5184,5186,32856,10372,32853,32855,5187,32854,33011],"class_list":["post-62909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-europe","category-history","category-literary-criticism","tag-herman-bernhard-lundborg","tag-herman-lundborg","tag-institute-for-race-biology","tag-journal-of-critical-mixed-race-studies","tag-norrbotten-province","tag-sami","tag-sweden","tag-terry-lee-marttinen","tag-torne-finns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62909"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63061,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62909\/revisions\/63061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}