The
Journal of Race Development was the first American journal of international relations. It was founded in 1911 by
George Hubbard BlakesleeGeorge Hubbard Blakeslee was an academic, professor at Clark University and the founder of the Journal of Race Development, which despite its name suggestive of eugenics was, in fact, the first American journal devoted to international relations...
, a historian who taught at
Clark UniversityClark University is a private research university and liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts.Founded in 1887, it is the oldest institution founded as an all-graduate university. Clark now also educates undergraduates...
. Despite a name which now suggests a journal devoted to
eugenicsEugenics is the study and practice of selective breeding applied to humans, with the aim of improving the species. Widely popular in the early decades of the 20th century, after having become associated with the Holocaust, it has largely fallen into disrepute.- Overview :As a social movement...
, the journal, in fact, dealt with a variety of topics connected with politics, foreign affairs and international relations. It was merged with
The Journal of International Relations, which in turn was merged with
Foreign AffairsForeign Affairs is an American magazine on international relations and U.S. foreign policy published by the Council on Foreign Relations six times annually...
in 1922.
In its founder's words, the journal aimed to present "...the important facts which bear upon race progress, and the different theories as to the methods by which developed peoples may most effectively aid the progress of the undeveloped".
In a recent article (
Ethnic and Racial studies 2004, vol.
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The
Journal of Race Development was the first American journal of international relations. It was founded in 1911 by
George Hubbard BlakesleeGeorge Hubbard Blakeslee was an academic, professor at Clark University and the founder of the Journal of Race Development, which despite its name suggestive of eugenics was, in fact, the first American journal devoted to international relations...
, a historian who taught at
Clark UniversityClark University is a private research university and liberal arts college in Worcester, Massachusetts.Founded in 1887, it is the oldest institution founded as an all-graduate university. Clark now also educates undergraduates...
. Despite a name which now suggests a journal devoted to
eugenicsEugenics is the study and practice of selective breeding applied to humans, with the aim of improving the species. Widely popular in the early decades of the 20th century, after having become associated with the Holocaust, it has largely fallen into disrepute.- Overview :As a social movement...
, the journal, in fact, dealt with a variety of topics connected with politics, foreign affairs and international relations. It was merged with
The Journal of International Relations, which in turn was merged with
Foreign AffairsForeign Affairs is an American magazine on international relations and U.S. foreign policy published by the Council on Foreign Relations six times annually...
in 1922.
In its founder's words, the journal aimed to present "...the important facts which bear upon race progress, and the different theories as to the methods by which developed peoples may most effectively aid the progress of the undeveloped".
In a recent article (
Ethnic and Racial studies 2004, vol. 27, #5, ISSN 0141-9870) the author holds that its basic premise was that scientific knowledge could harness racial or civilizational evolution and turn it into development. The article examines that project, the conceptual apparatus that the journal's writers and editors brought to bear on it, and how racial ideas informed their conceptions of development and progressive social change through elite scientific and political intervention. She claims that central to this project was an organic notion of civilization in which nature and culture did not so much overlap as flow seamlessly one into the other (Jessica Blatt - "To bring out the best that is in their blood": Race, reform, and civilization in the Journal of Race Development).
Major Articles
The following are some of the articles published in
The Journal of Race Development which are most commonly cited today.
- Chamberlain, A. F. "The Contribution of the Negro to Human Civilization", Journal of Race Development, Vol. I, April, 1911
- Du Bois, W.E.B., "Of the Culture of White Folk," Journal of Race Development, April 1917
- Fayette Avery McKenzie, "The American Indian of Today and Tomorrow," The Journal of Race Development, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Oct., 1912)
- Huntington , Ellsworth, "The Adaptability of the White Man to Tropical America," Journal of Race Development, October, 1914
- Singh, Sander. "The Hindu in Canada," Journal of Race Development, 7, 1916-17, 361-382.
- Veblen, Thorstein
Thorstein Bunde Veblen, born Tosten Bunde Veblen was a Norwegian-American sociologist and economist and a primary mentor, along with John R. Commons, of the institutional economics movement...
. "The Mutation Theory and the Blond Race", 1913, Journal of Race Development.
- Veblen, Thorstein
Thorstein Bunde Veblen, born Tosten Bunde Veblen was a Norwegian-American sociologist and economist and a primary mentor, along with John R. Commons, of the institutional economics movement...
. "The Opportunity of Japan", 1915, Journal of Race Development.