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<p><b>Winner, Robert Motherwell Book Award, Outstanding Book on Modernism in the Arts, The Dedalus Foundation, 2019</b></p> <p>As Latin American elites strove to modernize their cities at the turn of the twentieth century, they eagerly adopted the eugenic theory that improvements to the physical environment would lead to improvements in the human race. Based on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s theory of the “inheritance of acquired characteristics,” this strain of eugenics empowered a utopian project tha

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Author

Fabiola López-Durán

Publisher

University of Texas Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9781477314951

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Architecture, Art

Updated

2026-03-24