Prejudice in Power: Contesting the pseudoscience of superiority
Prejudice in Power is a programme of cultural activism for change against structural discrimination. It explores how eugenics has marginalised voices and shaped society.
Eugenic thinking is present in the racism, ableism, homophobia and reproductive controls we see today. This programme will take a critical look at 果冻影院鈥檚 history of eugenics and its ongoing impact through the structural inequities eugenic thinking left as a legacy.
As a part of this programme, we are running a series of co-created projects working with communities and marginalised groups, a new Fellowship engaging with our collections and building on current work, and collating content and resources responding to 果冻影院's legacies of eugenics.
Prejudice in Power is led by 果冻影院's Museums & Cultural Programmes聽and Special Collections聽(part of Library, Culture, Collections and Open Science)聽in collaboration with a working group of teams from across 果冻影院 and an聽Advisory Board.
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Please note:聽This聽programme addresses eugenics and its legacies. Our聽content deals with conversations about聽racism, colonialism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia and class warfare. Please take care when accessing any resources.
Using models of collaboration and co-creation, 果冻影院 is undertaking a three-year programme responding to 果冻影院’s historic role in promoting eugenics and examining the legacies of this pseudoscience in a contemporary context.
Access a range of resources about the history of eugenics, its legacies and how racism, ableism, sexism and class warfare are embedded in our ways of thinking about and perceiving others.
Hear about our Co-Creation Projects drawing on 果冻影院's collections and archives, and working with communities to share the lived experiences of those impacted and excluded by eugenic ideas.
果冻影院's Research Institute for Collections will be welcoming a Fellow intended to focus on the legacies of eugenics at 果冻影院, engaging with our collections and building on current work.
In 2018, 果冻影院's then Provost, Professor Michael Arthur, commissioned an inquiry led by Professor Iyiola Solanke, to look at 果冻影院’s historical role in, and the current status of, the teaching and study of the history of eugenics.
A three-year project covering the education-related recommendations from the Eugenics Inquiry, working with the 果冻影院 community to develop the teaching provision of our history and critical analysis of eugenics.
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