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- Title
WHEN SHOULD A PERSON'S NAME BE REMOVED FROM A MONUMENT? A PROPOSED STANDARD AND ITS APPLICATION TO THE YERKES NATIONAL PRIMATE RESEARCH CENTER.
- Authors
Shepherd, George
- Abstract
A contentious issue is the conditions under which offensive monuments should be removed, and controversial names should be eliminated from buildings and organizations. I first develop a standard for determining when a monument or name should be removed. Then, as a case study, I examine whether Emory University should remove the name of Robert M. Yerkes from the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. Applying my standard, I review Yerkes's career as a eugenicist, racist, anti-Semite, champion of race-based exclusion of immigrants from the United States, and a proponent of killing the "unfit." I conclude that his name should be removed from the Primate Center.
- Subjects
MONUMENTS; PERSONAL names; EMORY University; YERKES, Robert M.; YERKES National Primate Research Center; EUGENICS; ANTISEMITISM
- Publication
University of Toledo Law Review, 2020, Vol 51, Issue 2, p249
- ISSN
0042-0190
- Publication type
Article