Published in 1920, The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy is a polemical synthesis of geopolitics, demography, and eugenic pseudo-science. Stoddard surveys the post–World War I order, anti-colonial unrest, and differential birth rates to argue that so-called colored populations imperil European and American dominance. In cool, bureaucratic prose with maps, typologies, and tables, he advances a taxonomy of supposed races and urges immigration restriction, colonial consolidation, and policing of miscegenation. The book aligns with Madison Grant's The Passing of the Great Race and reflects interwar anxieties about empire and modernity. Harvard-trained historian and journalist Lothrop Stoddard (1883–1950) moved in eugenics and immigration-restriction circles, writing popular syntheses that gave a veneer of social-scientific authority to racial hierarchy. His early scholarship on the Haitian Revolution and later travels shaped his preoccupation with demographic pressure, imperial retreat, and Bolshevism. The book distills that milieu, translating elite nativist discourse for a broad audience. Recommended as a primary source, not an authority: readers in intellectual history, race science, empire studies, and policy history will find it illuminating for understanding how statistical rhetoric and fear-mongering buttressed white supremacist projects. Read with critical frameworks and scholarship that dismantle its premises and document ensuing harms.
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