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This chapter explores the posture exams and posture photography as a disciplinary practice and visual regime that measured and shaped bodily norms in elite U.S. colleges. It examines how these exams and photography functioned as eugenic tools to classify bodies and uphold ideals of whiteness, health, and normalcy, while also tracing its afterlives in contemporary surveillance and visual culture.

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The University as Eugenic Laboratory

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    2026年

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  • Andrea N. Baldwin,
  • Sangyoon Lee,
  • Heidi Henderson

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This chapter explores the posture exams and posture photography as a disciplinary practice and visual regime that measured and shaped bodily norms in elite U.S. colleges. It examines how these exams and photography functioned as eugenic tools to classify bodies and uphold ideals of whiteness, health, and normalcy, while also tracing its afterlives in contemporary surveillance and visual culture.