Jun 16, 2009

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America’s Racialist Moment, Part II:
The Scientific Racialists

Scientific RacialismRadical Racialism tended to be Southern, Protestant Christian, and rural. It had grown seamlessly out of the pro-slavery arguments before the war. The second movement in American racialism arising in the 1890s, though in practice in substantial agreement with the former, had very different philosophical underpinnings. This is the ideology generally called...

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Jun 15, 2009

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America’s Racialist Moment, Part I:
The Radical Racialists

Editor’s Note: George McDaniel’s essay “America’s Racialist Moment: Racism as Reform” (TOQ, vol. 6, no. 1), belongs someday in an anthology of The Best of the Occidental Quarterly. The article is available in full elsewhere on this site. I am republishing it here in two parts, with illustrations and links, to bring it to the attention of readers of TOQ...

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