{"id":63476,"date":"2022-03-21T01:40:27","date_gmt":"2022-03-21T01:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63476"},"modified":"2022-03-21T15:38:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-21T15:38:16","slug":"11-the-dream-of-creating-a-mixed-super-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63476","title":{"rendered":"The dream of creating a mixed super-race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/spiritual-eugenics\/11-the-dream-of-creating-a-new-mixed-master-race-e9285c5d1ff1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>The dream of creating a mixed super-race<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/spiritual-eugenics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spiritual Eugenics: Exploring the overlap between eugenics and New Age spirituality, from 1880 to the present day<\/a><br \/>\n2022-03-19<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JulesEvans11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Jules Evans<\/strong><\/a>, Honorary Research Fellow<br \/>\n<em>Centre for the History of Emotions<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/spiritual-eugenics\/11-the-dream-of-creating-a-new-mixed-master-race-e9285c5d1ff1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"width: 33%; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/miro.medium.com\/max\/1063\/0*ADjGTBdmK186dVIM.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eugenics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eugenics<\/a> often overlapped (and still overlaps) with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scientific_racism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scientific racism<\/a> and white supremacy, leading many people to confuse the two. It\u2019s true that in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United States<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Germany\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Germany<\/a>, the two countries which most enthusiastically embraced eugenics in the 1920s-1940s, eugenics <em>did<\/em> very often overlap with an ideology of white supremacy and scientific racism. However, as I\u2019ve explored throughout this project, there were several different varieties of eugenics, including versions which promoted using selective breeding to encourage inter-racial mingling, thereby creating a spiritual master-race.<\/p>\n<p>In this chapter, we\u2019re going to examine four figures who promoted inter-racial forms of spiritual eugenics \u2014 ie they explored the idea that inter-racial breeding can help to create spiritually gifted individuals or even a new race of superbeings. They didn\u2019t all necessarily believe in the state saying who can and can\u2019t reproduce \u2014 but they did explore ideas of selective inter-racial breeding towards the goal of creating more spiritually advanced humans&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/spiritual-eugenics\/11-the-dream-of-creating-a-new-mixed-master-race-e9285c5d1ff1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the latest entry in my Spiritual Eugenics project, which explores the overlap between eugenics and New Age spirituality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,459,1196,8,6941,20],"tags":[2065,1996,33297,33300,6668,33299,33298],"class_list":["post-63476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-history","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-philosophy","category-usa","tag-eugenics","tag-jean-toomer","tag-jules-evans","tag-luther-burbank","tag-octavia-butler","tag-pascal-beverley-randolph","tag-spiritual-eugenics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63476","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=63476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63486,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63476\/revisions\/63486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}