{"id":1864,"date":"2018-12-21T02:37:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T02:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2018-12-21T08:32:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T08:32:21","slug":"eugenics-in-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/eugenics-in-advertising\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1862\" style=\"width: 387px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1862\" class=\"wp-image-1862\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/image_535x817_from_00_to_17752709-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"377\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/image_535x817_from_00_to_17752709-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/files\/2018\/12\/image_535x817_from_00_to_17752709.jpg 535w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This media propaganda \u00a0demonstrates the ideals that eugenicists were pushing upon the public. This advertisement shows a happy couple with \u00a0title,\u201c&#8217;Watch Us! \u2019Says Eugenic Couple who Married to Lead Perfect Life\u201d. This couple, both white individuals who are being described as a perfect pair, advertises \u00a0to normalize same race marriage. Miscegenation was illegal during this period and based on the cultural norms of eugenics within society, propaganda tried to reinforce the notions of &#8221; the fittest family. The media intends this ad to be the perfect example and the benefit of eugenics within marriage and long lasting benefits in society.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176341],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac-brown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}