Vallejo Nágera’s Eugenics of Hispanity and its Introduction in Latin America
Abstract
Vallejo Nágera’s approach to eugenics runs in parallel with his Hispanity conception. This conception presents a dual structure supported by two concepts: race and motherland. Both are deeply ingrained in catholic traditionalism. The article presents eugenic logic in two ways: on one hand, by showing the surreptitious contradiction behind the particular way in which Vallejo Nágera took up the nazi eugenics and, on the other hand, by tracking its influence on his work at francoist concentration camps. In order to know thoroughly the context, the authors make a review of eugenics subject throughtout Latin America and strongly focus on Argentina. Finally, a critical appraisal on the dichotomy between positive and negative eugenics is linked to the “Lamarckism vs. Darwinism” problem in the early twentieth century.
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