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The Passing of the Great Race

or, The Racial Basis of European History

Madison Grant

1922

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Biography

The Real Washington Consensus

Modernization theory and the delusions of American strategy.

by Charles King via Foreign Affairs on October 24, 2023
Origin Story

White Nationalism’s Deep American Roots

A long-overdue excavation of the book that Hitler called his “bible,” and the man who wrote it.

by Adam Serwer via The Atlantic on March 14, 2019
Book Review

“The Passing of the Great Race” at 100

In the age of Trump, Madison Grant's influential work of scientific racism takes on a new salience.

by Noel Hartman via Public Books on July 1, 2016

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American Immigration: A Century of Racism

Discussions of eugenics and other fascistic ideas in American history tend to provoke the defense that they never took root. So why do they keep flowering?

by Sarah Churchwell via New York Review of Books on September 12, 2019

Broadside for debate between W.E.B. DuBois and Lothrop Stoddard.

When W.E.B. Du Bois Made a Laughing Stock of a White Supremacist

Why the Jim Crow-era debate between the African-American leader and a ridiculous, Nazi-loving racist isn’t as famous as Lincoln-Douglas.

by Ian Frazier via The New Yorker on August 19, 2019

Literacy Tests and Asian Exclusion Were the Hallmarks of the 1917 Immigration Act

One hundred years ago, the U.S. Congress decided that there needed to be severe limits on who was coming into the country.

by Lorraine Boissoneault via Smithsonian Magazine on February 6, 2017

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