Race Suicide (1938 Film)
Race suicide may refer to: * Race suicide, a concept in Eugenics *'' Race Suicide (1916 film)'', an American short film directed by George Terwilliger *'' Race Suicide (1938 film)'', an American film produced by Willis Kent Willis Kent (June 8, 1878, Michigan – March 11, 1966, Los Angeles, California) was an independent American film producer, active from 1928 to 1958 under at least three different corporate names. Willis Kent Productions was active during the ...

Race Suicide
Race suicide was an alarmist term used in eugenics, coined in 1900 by the sociologist Edward A. Ross. Racial suicide rhetoric suggested a differential birth rate between native-born Protestant and immigrant Catholic women, or more generally between the "fit" or "best" (white, wealthy, educated Protestants), and the "unfit" or "undesirable" (poor, uneducated, criminals, diseased, mental and physical "defectives," and ethnic, racial, and religious minorities), such that the "fit" group would ultimately dwindle to the point of extinction. Belief in race suicide is an element of Nordicism. In anti-East Asian discourse, the concept is associated with the "Yellow Peril". In 1902, US President Theodore Roosevelt called race suicide "fundamentally infinitely more important than any other question in this country" and argued that "the man or woman who deliberately avoids marriage, and has a heart so cold as to know no passion and a brain so shallow and selfish as to dislike having childre ...
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Race Suicide (1916 Film)
Race suicide may refer to: * Race suicide, a concept in Eugenics *'' Race Suicide (1916 film)'', an American short film directed by George Terwilliger *''Race Suicide (1938 film)'', an American film produced by Willis Kent Willis Kent (June 8, 1878, Michigan – March 11, 1966, Los Angeles, California) was an independent American film producer, active from 1928 to 1958 under at least three different corporate names. Willis Kent Productions was active during the ...

George Terwilliger
George Walter Terwilliger (February 27, 1882 – December 12, 1970) was an American film director, screenwriter, and journalist."TERWILLIGER, George"
entry "Motion Picture Studio Directory" supplement, ''

Motion Picture News

'' (New York, N.Y.), October 21, 1916, p. 121.

Internet Archive

, San Francisco, California. Retrieved April 15, 2020. He worked in both the silent and sound eras, directing at least 76 productions between 1912 and 1936. He also wrote ...
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Race Suicide (1938 Film)
Race suicide may refer to: * Race suicide, a concept in Eugenics *'' Race Suicide (1916 film)'', an American short film directed by George Terwilliger *'' Race Suicide (1938 film)'', an American film produced by Willis Kent Willis Kent (June 8, 1878, Michigan – March 11, 1966, Los Angeles, California) was an independent American film producer, active from 1928 to 1958 under at least three different corporate names. Willis Kent Productions was active during the ...