Roger Pearson
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Roger Pearson is a British anthropologist, conservationist
, eugenics
advocate, founder of the Neo Nazi organization Northern League, and publisher of several journals.
, Pearson joined the British Army
Queen’s Royal Regiment in England
, April 1945, was commissioned in 1946 from British Indian Army
OTS Kakul
, North-West Frontier Province (today the Pakistan Military Academy
). Served with the British Indian Army in Meerut, (1946) before the Partition of India
: with the British Indian Division in the Occupation of Japan, and with the British Army in Singapore
(1948), before returning to University in England. Pearson later directed various British-controlled companies in East Pakistan
(now Bangladesh
). In 1963 he served as President of the Pakistan Tea Association, Chittagong
. He also served on the Managing Committee of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry.
From the University of London
, he gained a Master's degree in Economics and Sociology and a Ph.D. in Anthropology.Pearson grew up in England during World War II
and lost his only sibling, a Battle of Britain fighter pilot (238 Squadron), four cousins (three pilots/aircrew) and two school friends, in that war.
In 1958 he founded the Northern League for North European Friendship, an organization promoting Pan-Germanism
, Anti-semitism
and Neo Nazi Racial ideology. From the beginning the League was criticized because of its open emphasis on the dysgenic and fratricidal nature of intra-European warfare, and its tendency to attract people such as scholar Hans F. K. Günther, who received awards under the National Socialist regime for his work on race, and other European nationalists. Pearson resigned from the League in 1961, after which it became more politically oriented. In the 1960'es he came to the US where working together with Willis Carto
, he published the Anti-semite
magazine The New Patriot under the pseudonym Stephan Langton.
He joined the Eugenics Society in 1963 and became a fellow in 1977.
Pearson sold his business interests in East Pakistan
in 1965 and moved to the United States, where for a period of a few months he contributed to some of Willis Carto’s publications such as Western Destiny and Noontide Press. From 1967 to 1967 as 'Stephan Langton', Pearson published 'The New Patriot', a magazine devoted to "a responsible but penetrating inquiry into every aspect of the Jewish Question." In 1966 he toured the southern USA and Caribbean, and in 1967 he visited South Africa, Rhodesia and Mozambique, before joining the faculty of the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) in 1968 as an Assistant Professor of Sociology. In 1970, he was appointed Associate Professor and head of Sociology and Anthropology at Queens College, Charlotte (now Queens University of Charlotte) but resigned to return to USM the next year as Professor and Chairman of a new Department of Anthropology, offering both Bachelors and Masters degrees.
In 1974 Pearson was appointed Professor and Dean of Academic Affairs and Director of Research at Montana Tech
. During his tenure as dean, the school received $60,000 from the Pioneer Fund to support Pearson’s academic research and publishing activities. When a journalist called the various universities at which Pearson had held positions, Montana Tech officials stated they were unaware that Pearson was the person who had edited Western Destiny, a periodical laden with many pro-South Africa, anti-Communist and anti-racial mixing articles, who had penned both articles and pamphlets for Willis Carto's Noontide Press. These race-oriented titles included: "Eugenics and Race" and "Early Civilizations of the Nordic Peoples."
In 1975, Pearson left academia and moved to Washington, D.C., to become president of the Council on American Affairs, President of the American chapter of the World Anti-Communist League
, Editor of the Journal on American Affairs (later renamed Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies), and eventually President of University Professors for Academic Order (UPAO), and Trustee of the Benjamin Franklin University. He also served on editorial board of the several institutions, including the Heritage Foundation
, the Foreign Policy Research Institute
, and the American Security Council, and that a number of conservative politicians wrote articles for Pearson’s Journal on American Affairs and related Monographs, including Senators Jake Garn (R-UT), Carl T. Curtis (R-NE), Jesse Helms (R-NC), and Representatives Jack Kemp (R-NY), and Philip Crane (R-UT).
Pearson was elected World Chairman of the World Anti-Communist League
in 1978 and presided over its 11th Annual Conference held in Washington that year. The initial session of the five day session, which was addressed by two U.S Senators and opened by the Marine Corp Band and Joint Armed Services Honor Guard, was attended by several hundred members from around the world. After the meeting had been condemned in Pravda
, the Washington Post published an even more critical attack on both WACL and Pearson's alleged extreme right wing politics.
After the Washington Post article, Pearson was asked to resign from the editorial board of the neo-Conservative Heritage Foundation
’s journal Policy Review
, which he had helped to found, but his connection with other organizations continued, and as late as 1986 Covert Action
criticized his continued association with James Angleton, former chief of CIA Counter-Intelligence, General Robert C. Richardson, and other American Security Council members.
In 1981, Pearson received the library of Donald A. Swan
through a grant from the Pioneer Fund
. Pearson also held the directorship of the Institute for the Study of Man, a group which was alleged by Searchlight magazine
to have received $869,500 between 1981 and 1996 from the Pioneer Fund
and which under Pearson acquired the peer-reviewed journal Mankind Quarterly
in 1979. Pearson took over as publisher and is said to have editorial influence although his name has never appeared on the masthead. Pearson has used diverse pseudonyms to contribute to the journal, including J.W. Jamieson, and Alan McGregor. This publication was later taken over by The Council for Social and Economic Studies.
Pearson is also director of the Council for Social and Economics Studies, which owns the Scott-Townsend Publishers imprint, and General Editor of the 35-year old academic Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies.
Conservationist
Conservationists are proponents or advocates of conservation. They advocate for the protection of all the species in an ecosystem with a strong focus on the natural environment...
, eugenics
Eugenics
Eugenics is the "applied science or the bio-social movement which advocates the use of practices aimed at improving the genetic composition of a population", usually referring to human populations. The origins of the concept of eugenics began with certain interpretations of Mendelian inheritance,...
advocate, founder of the Neo Nazi organization Northern League, and publisher of several journals.
Life and work
Originally from Great BritainGreat Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
, Pearson joined the British Army
British Army
The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...
Queen’s Royal Regiment in England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, April 1945, was commissioned in 1946 from British Indian Army
British Indian Army
The British Indian Army, officially simply the Indian Army, was the principal army of the British Raj in India before the partition of India in 1947...
OTS Kakul
Kakul
Kakul is a town situated in the Kakul Valley at an elevation of 1300 metres, 5 km northeast of Abbottabad city near the Thandiani Hills, in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The population is around 30,000.-History:...
, North-West Frontier Province (today the Pakistan Military Academy
Pakistan Military Academy
The Pakistan Military Academy is a four-year coeducational federal service military academy. It is located at Kakul near Abbottabad in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan....
). Served with the British Indian Army in Meerut, (1946) before the Partition of India
Partition of India
The Partition of India was the partition of British India on the basis of religious demographics that led to the creation of the sovereign states of the Dominion of Pakistan and the Union of India on 14 and 15...
: with the British Indian Division in the Occupation of Japan, and with the British Army in Singapore
Singapore
Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...
(1948), before returning to University in England. Pearson later directed various British-controlled companies in East Pakistan
East Pakistan
East Pakistan was a provincial state of Pakistan established in 14 August 1947. The provincial state existed until its declaration of independence on 26 March 1971 as the independent nation of Bangladesh. Pakistan recognized the new nation on 16 December 1971. East Pakistan was created from Bengal...
(now Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...
). In 1963 he served as President of the Pakistan Tea Association, Chittagong
Chittagong
Chittagong ) is a city in southeastern Bangladesh and the capital of an eponymous district and division. Built on the banks of the Karnaphuli River, the city is home to Bangladesh's busiest seaport and has a population of over 4.5 million, making it the second largest city in the country.A trading...
. He also served on the Managing Committee of the Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry.
From the University of London
University of London
-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
, he gained a Master's degree in Economics and Sociology and a Ph.D. in Anthropology.Pearson grew up in England during World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
and lost his only sibling, a Battle of Britain fighter pilot (238 Squadron), four cousins (three pilots/aircrew) and two school friends, in that war.
In 1958 he founded the Northern League for North European Friendship, an organization promoting Pan-Germanism
Pan-Germanism
Pan-Germanism is a pan-nationalist political idea. Pan-Germanists originally sought to unify the German-speaking populations of Europe in a single nation-state known as Großdeutschland , where "German-speaking" was taken to include the Low German, Frisian and Dutch-speaking populations of the Low...
, Anti-semitism
Anti-Semitism
Antisemitism is suspicion of, hatred toward, or discrimination against Jews for reasons connected to their Jewish heritage. According to a 2005 U.S...
and Neo Nazi Racial ideology. From the beginning the League was criticized because of its open emphasis on the dysgenic and fratricidal nature of intra-European warfare, and its tendency to attract people such as scholar Hans F. K. Günther, who received awards under the National Socialist regime for his work on race, and other European nationalists. Pearson resigned from the League in 1961, after which it became more politically oriented. In the 1960'es he came to the US where working together with Willis Carto
Willis Carto
Willis Allison Carto is a longtime figure on the American far right. He describes himself as Jeffersonian and populist, but is primarily known for his promotion of antisemitic conspiracy theories and Holocaust denial.-Influences on Carto:...
, he published the Anti-semite
Anti-Semitism
Antisemitism is suspicion of, hatred toward, or discrimination against Jews for reasons connected to their Jewish heritage. According to a 2005 U.S...
magazine The New Patriot under the pseudonym Stephan Langton.
He joined the Eugenics Society in 1963 and became a fellow in 1977.
Pearson sold his business interests in East Pakistan
East Pakistan
East Pakistan was a provincial state of Pakistan established in 14 August 1947. The provincial state existed until its declaration of independence on 26 March 1971 as the independent nation of Bangladesh. Pakistan recognized the new nation on 16 December 1971. East Pakistan was created from Bengal...
in 1965 and moved to the United States, where for a period of a few months he contributed to some of Willis Carto’s publications such as Western Destiny and Noontide Press. From 1967 to 1967 as 'Stephan Langton', Pearson published 'The New Patriot', a magazine devoted to "a responsible but penetrating inquiry into every aspect of the Jewish Question." In 1966 he toured the southern USA and Caribbean, and in 1967 he visited South Africa, Rhodesia and Mozambique, before joining the faculty of the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) in 1968 as an Assistant Professor of Sociology. In 1970, he was appointed Associate Professor and head of Sociology and Anthropology at Queens College, Charlotte (now Queens University of Charlotte) but resigned to return to USM the next year as Professor and Chairman of a new Department of Anthropology, offering both Bachelors and Masters degrees.
In 1974 Pearson was appointed Professor and Dean of Academic Affairs and Director of Research at Montana Tech
Montana Tech of The University of Montana
Montana Tech is a university located in Butte, Montana. It was founded in 1900, originally as Montana State School of Mines with two degrees, Mining Engineering and Electrical Engineering. The "M" on Big Butte overlooking the city stands for Miners and was built in 1910...
. During his tenure as dean, the school received $60,000 from the Pioneer Fund to support Pearson’s academic research and publishing activities. When a journalist called the various universities at which Pearson had held positions, Montana Tech officials stated they were unaware that Pearson was the person who had edited Western Destiny, a periodical laden with many pro-South Africa, anti-Communist and anti-racial mixing articles, who had penned both articles and pamphlets for Willis Carto's Noontide Press. These race-oriented titles included: "Eugenics and Race" and "Early Civilizations of the Nordic Peoples."
In 1975, Pearson left academia and moved to Washington, D.C., to become president of the Council on American Affairs, President of the American chapter of the World Anti-Communist League
World Anti-Communist League
The World League for Freedom and Democracy is an international anti-communist political organization founded in 1966 in Taipei, Republic of China , under the initiative of Chiang Kai-shek. It was founded with the aim of opposing Communism around the world through "unconventional" methods...
, Editor of the Journal on American Affairs (later renamed Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies), and eventually President of University Professors for Academic Order (UPAO), and Trustee of the Benjamin Franklin University. He also served on editorial board of the several institutions, including the Heritage Foundation
Heritage Foundation
The Heritage Foundation is a conservative American think tank based in Washington, D.C. Heritage's stated mission is to "formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong...
, the Foreign Policy Research Institute
Foreign Policy Research Institute
The Foreign Policy Research Institute is an American neoconservative think tank based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is "devoted to bringing the insights of scholarship to bear on the development of policies that advance U.S...
, and the American Security Council, and that a number of conservative politicians wrote articles for Pearson’s Journal on American Affairs and related Monographs, including Senators Jake Garn (R-UT), Carl T. Curtis (R-NE), Jesse Helms (R-NC), and Representatives Jack Kemp (R-NY), and Philip Crane (R-UT).
Pearson was elected World Chairman of the World Anti-Communist League
World Anti-Communist League
The World League for Freedom and Democracy is an international anti-communist political organization founded in 1966 in Taipei, Republic of China , under the initiative of Chiang Kai-shek. It was founded with the aim of opposing Communism around the world through "unconventional" methods...
in 1978 and presided over its 11th Annual Conference held in Washington that year. The initial session of the five day session, which was addressed by two U.S Senators and opened by the Marine Corp Band and Joint Armed Services Honor Guard, was attended by several hundred members from around the world. After the meeting had been condemned in Pravda
Pravda
Pravda was a leading newspaper of the Soviet Union and an official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1912 and 1991....
, the Washington Post published an even more critical attack on both WACL and Pearson's alleged extreme right wing politics.
After the Washington Post article, Pearson was asked to resign from the editorial board of the neo-Conservative Heritage Foundation
Heritage Foundation
The Heritage Foundation is a conservative American think tank based in Washington, D.C. Heritage's stated mission is to "formulate and promote conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong...
’s journal Policy Review
Policy Review
Policy Review is one of America's leading conservative journals. It was founded by the Heritage Foundation and was for many years the foundation's flagship publication. In 2001, the publication was acquired by the Stanford University-based Hoover Institution, though it maintains its office on...
, which he had helped to found, but his connection with other organizations continued, and as late as 1986 Covert Action
Covert Action
Covert Action is an action and strategy computer game designed by Sid Meier. It was released in 1990 by MicroProse, a publisher of several of Meier's early games...
criticized his continued association with James Angleton, former chief of CIA Counter-Intelligence, General Robert C. Richardson, and other American Security Council members.
In 1981, Pearson received the library of Donald A. Swan
Donald A. Swan
Donald A. Swan was an American anthropologist.Swan was a founder of the International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics and was involved in the Northern League. He was an assistant professor at The University of Southern Mississippi and studied economics at Columbia.In...
through a grant from the Pioneer Fund
Pioneer Fund
The Pioneer Fund is an American non-profit foundation established in 1937 "to advance the scientific study of heredity and human differences." Currently headed by psychology professor J. Philippe Rushton, the fund states that it focuses on projects it perceives will not be easily funded due to...
. Pearson also held the directorship of the Institute for the Study of Man, a group which was alleged by Searchlight magazine
Searchlight (magazine)
Searchlight is a British anti-fascist magazine, founded in 1975 by Gerry Gable, which publishes exposés about racism, antisemitism, and fascism in the UK....
to have received $869,500 between 1981 and 1996 from the Pioneer Fund
Pioneer Fund
The Pioneer Fund is an American non-profit foundation established in 1937 "to advance the scientific study of heredity and human differences." Currently headed by psychology professor J. Philippe Rushton, the fund states that it focuses on projects it perceives will not be easily funded due to...
and which under Pearson acquired the peer-reviewed journal Mankind Quarterly
Mankind Quarterly
The Mankind Quarterly is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to physical and cultural anthropology and is currently published by the Council for Social and Economic Studies in Washington, D.C. It contains articles on human evolution, intelligence, ethnography, linguistics, mythology,...
in 1979. Pearson took over as publisher and is said to have editorial influence although his name has never appeared on the masthead. Pearson has used diverse pseudonyms to contribute to the journal, including J.W. Jamieson, and Alan McGregor. This publication was later taken over by The Council for Social and Economic Studies.
Pearson is also director of the Council for Social and Economics Studies, which owns the Scott-Townsend Publishers imprint, and General Editor of the 35-year old academic Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies.
Publications
- Eastern Interlude. Thacker Spink, Calcutta; Luzac and Co., London, 1953.
- Eugenics and Race. Clair Press, London, 1958.
- Early Civilizations of the Nordic Peoples. Northern World, London, 1958.
- Introduction to Anthropology: an ecological/evolutionary approach. Holt Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1974.
- Sino-Soviet Intervention in Africa. Council on American Affairs, 1977.
- Korea in the World Today. Council on American Affairs, Washington, D.C., 1978.
- Ecology and Evolution. Mankind Quarterly Monograph, Washington, D.C., 1981.
- Essays in Medical Anthropology, Scott-Townsend Publishers, Washington, D.C., 1981.
- Anthropological Glossary. Krieger Publishing Co., Malabar, Fl. 1985.
- Evolution, Creative Intelligence, and Intergroup Competition. Cliveden Press, 1986
- William Shockley: Shockley on Eugenics and Race: The Application of Science to the Solution of Human Problems. Introduction by Arthur Jensen. Scott-Townsend Publishers, Washington, D.C., 1992.
- Race, Intelligence and Bias in Academe. Introduction by Hans Eysenck. Scott-Townsend Publishers, Scott-Townsend Publishers, 1991 (2nd. Ed. 1994).
- Heredity and Humanity: Race, Eugenics and Modern Science, 1996. Scott-Townsend Publishers, Washington, D.C., 1991 (2nd edition 1998).