POP-EU: Popular Eugenics in Television & Film

Acumen's Pop-Eu lecture series encourages an investigation of eugenic theories situated in popular television series, films, characters, and scripting. This short-course, designed as three concurrent lectures, helps viewers bridge the connection between eugenic ideology in laboratories and science classes with common media images. The three courses cover Tropes of Black Masculinity, Black Women: Birthing Pathology, and Stereotypes R Us. Each lecture includes a basic U.S. history lesson, within a safe learning environment that welcomes questions. These are great supplemental history classes for those studying American history, Women & Gender or African-American studies, law, and/or public policy.

The goal of The Acumen Group is to serve as "change agents," who help reconcile not-so-pleasant mores and ideals with the realities of social bias both within Black communities and globally. High school & college students are welcome.