Join us for a thought-provoking in-person event, as we delve into the impact of 'Racial Fitness' theories.
Unlike the fronts of yesteryear, when eugenics, the "science of better breeding," relied most heavily on public health and public education platforms to disseminate information, it now thrives most virulently through popular television, film, music, advertising, and social media.
Eugenic theories related to transmittable traits for crime, morality, intelligence, and poverty, continue to inform how we frame aspects of life such as masculinity, patriotism, womanhood/motherhood, beauty, and social fitness.
This talk will be delivered by award-winning historian and journalist Dr Shantella Sherman. We will examine the shifts of eugenic theories from the laboratory to our living rooms and their presence in some of our favourite shows from Orphan Black and Top Boy, to Coronation Street and Happy Valley.
