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The Dark History of Gasoline Baths: Film Review The 2019 video “The Dark History of ‘Gasoline Baths’ at the Border” by Vox centers around the mistreatment of Mexican immigrants by American health officials at the El Paso border in 1917. The abuse they suffered is representative of two large issues in American society during this time: the rise in Eugenics and anti-Mexican sentiment. The idea of cleanliness and uncleanliness has historically been deeply embedded in racial discrimination in the United States. Specifically, it was often perceived that people of color (in this case Mexicans) were dirty and carried diseases that could infect ‘clean’ white Americans. Perceived uncleanliness could even prevent …show more content…
According to the narrator of the film: “U.S health officials were tasked with weeding out immigrants they thought were unfit or disease carriers, and across the country, that process coincided with the stereotyping of Mexicans as inferior and unclean” (2:19). Why was it that people of color were perceived as intrinsically unclean and dirty? This idea cannot be chalked up to darker skin tone alone, in fact, this sentiment has everything to do with genetic purity, which funnels into the Eugenics movement and anti-immigration policies. Although this is not something that is commonly known, eugenics and anti-immigration policies often go hand in hand. Racism, at its core, stems from the idea that a certain race/ethnicity is biologically inferior and should be punished for their existence. This often manifests itself in racist policies that limit immigration in pursuit of protecting racial purity, which is essentially Eugenics. U.S. officials decided who was able to immigrate to the U.S. based on “fitness”, a practice riddled with racist undertones and has historically been used as justification to bar people of color from becoming American citizens. This classifies as Eugenics because these policies were

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