Eugenics: Go to the Image Archives of the American Eugenics Movement hosted by the DNA Learning Center of the Cold Springs Harbor Laboratory. Read the chapters, and view the images to answer the questions below.

1		What was the Eugenics movement? What was its social and scientific basis?
2		What were the scientific flaws in the eugenics research?
3		In which three areas of law did the eugenics movement seek reform? How successful were they? What kinds of eugenics-based laws have been passed in the 20th century?
4		Do you think that eugenics is just a thing of that past? How does an anthropological understanding of race undermine the assumptions of the eugenics movement?

Ethnicity in the Balkans: Read Mary Kay Gilliland Olsen's article entitled "Bridge on the Sava: Ethnicity in Eastern Croatia", 1981-1991.

5		What are the nationalities and the ethnicities mentioned in this article?
6		In the early 1980's, under a Communist government, how were relationships between these different ethnic groups? What was discussed publicly? What was discussed privately?
7		What changing economic conditions prompted the movement to succession?
8		In what ways do the modern day residents of the Balkans link together nationalism, ethnicity, and religion to form their identities? Is it possible to completely separate them?
9		According to the author, the question that remains unresolved in her own mind at the end of the article is "how people move from a disagreement about who should control what resources to hatred based on nationalism." In your opinion, how do these changes come about?