This article argues that reformers’ racial nativism, belief in the power of eugenics to improve society, and desire to restrict US citizenship to certain racial groups contributed to reproductive and eugenic curriculum used by early public-school sex education programs. It utilizes newspaper accounts and archival records from the headquarters of the American Social Hygiene Association, Committee of Fourteen, United Neighborhood Houses, and Child Study Association in New York City to answer several crucial questions: What dangers did each organization attribute to adolescent sexuality and reproduction? How did each envision its role in societal improvement and in the sex education movement? What did these reform organizations consider as the ideal relationship between the home, school, and society? While the existing scholarship explains how each of these organizations fit into the larger historical context of progressive reform, examining them separately downplays the degree to which ideas about race, reproduction, immigration, and US citizenship circulated among reformers, especially as leaders of these groups worked across organizational lines to promote sex education.

本文认为，改革者的种族本土主义、对优生学能够改善社会的信念以及将美国公民身份限制在某些种族群体的愿望促成了早期公立学校性教育项目使用的生殖和优生课程。它利用美国社会卫生协会总部、十四人委员会、联合邻里之家和纽约市儿童研究协会总部的报纸报道和档案记录来回答几个关键问题：每个组织将哪些危险归因于青少年性行为和生殖? 每个人如何设想自己在社会进步和性教育运动中的作用？这些改革组织认为家庭、学校、和社会？虽然现有的学术研究解释了这些组织中的每一个如何适应渐进式改革的更大历史背景，但单独研究它们却淡化了关于种族、繁殖、移民和美国公民身份的思想在改革者之间传播的程度，尤其是当这些团体的领导人工作时跨组织线促进性教育。