• Fig. 17. Emblem from the Mexican Eugenics Society for the Improvement of the Race, published in each edition of the Society’s Bulletin. The text on the right reads as follows: “El emblema representa dos brazos de los sexos masculine y femenino, empuñando la antorcha del saber, cuyas flamas se confunden en el ideal que inspira la enseñanza eugénica; todo esto emergiendo del mar agitado por la ignorancia y las pasiones. Al fondo, se destaca la ponderosa rueda del progreso.” [The emblem represents two arms of the masculine and feminine sexes, holding up the torch of knowledge, whose flames merge into the ideal that eugenic teaching inspires; all this emerges from the sea, agitated by ignorance and passions. In the background, the powerful wheel of progress stands out.] Sociedad Eugénica Mexicana para el mejoramiento de la raza, Boletín num 8, 6 de oct. de 1932, p. 2. Caja 35505, “educación sexual,” Archivo General de la Nación, folio 225 vuelta.

Emblem of the Mexican Eugenics Society for the Improvement of the Race

From Embodied Archive: Disability in Post-Revolutionary Mexican Cultural Production by Susan Antebi

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