Another UVa building named after a eugenicist could be renamed
CHARLOTTESVILLE — On Friday, the University of Virginia will consider changing the name of a school of medicine wing that currently honors a eugenicist who believed that slavery benefited African Americans.
Paul Brandon Barringer joined UVa’s faculty in 1889 and instituted new technology at UVa’s medical school, expanded training for future doctors and worked to establish the university’s first hospital. In 1901, the UVa hospital opened.
In an essay, presented at a conference in 1900 in Charleston, South Carolina, Barringer wrote about what he called “the negro problem” facing the South, and suggested that since Emancipation, African Americans were reverting back to “savagery.”
“The young negro of the South, except where descended from parents of exceptional character and worth, is reverting through hereditary forces to savagery,” he wrote. “Fifty centuries of savagery in the blood cannot be held down by two centuries of forced good behavior if the controlling influences which held down his savagery are withdrawn as they have been in this case.”
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