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The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy is a book by Lothrop Stoddard
Lothrop Stoddard

Lothrop Stoddard , born Theodore Lothrop Stoddard, was an United States political scientist, historian, journalist, anthropologist, Eugenics, pacifist, and anti-immigration advocate who wrote a number of books which many cite as prominent examples of early 20th-century scientific racism....
 published in 1920. The book focuses on the coming collapse of a white
White people

White people is a term which is usually used to refer to Human characterized, at least in part, by the light Human skin color. It often refers narrowly to people claiming ancestry exclusively from Europe....
 world empire
Empire

Empire derives from the Latin word imperium, denoting ?military command? in Roman. Politically, an empire is a geographically extensive group of states and peoples united and ruled either by a monarch or an oligarchy....
 and colonialism
Colonialism

Colonialism is the extension of a nation's sovereignty over Territory beyond its borders by the establishment of either settler or exploitation colony in which Indigenous people populations are direct rule, Population transfers, or Genocide....
 based on population growth
Population growth

Population growth is the change in population over time, and can be quantified as the change in the number of individuals in a population using "per unit time" for measurement....
 among "colored peoples
Colored

Colored is a North American euphemism once widely regarded as a description of black people , and also Native Americans in the United States. It should not be confused with the more recent term person of color, which attempts to describe all "non-white peoples", not just blacks....
". While Stoddard clearly holds racist
Racism

Racism, by its simplest definition is the belief that Race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race....
 views in his work, and the introduction contains scientific racist
Scientific racism

Scientific racism denotes the use of scientific, or ostensibly scientific, findings and methods to support or validate Racism attitudes and worldviews....
 theories, some of Stoddard's statements question the right of whites to invade other races.






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The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy is a book by Lothrop Stoddard
Lothrop Stoddard

Lothrop Stoddard , born Theodore Lothrop Stoddard, was an United States political scientist, historian, journalist, anthropologist, Eugenics, pacifist, and anti-immigration advocate who wrote a number of books which many cite as prominent examples of early 20th-century scientific racism....
 published in 1920. The book focuses on the coming collapse of a white
White people

White people is a term which is usually used to refer to Human characterized, at least in part, by the light Human skin color. It often refers narrowly to people claiming ancestry exclusively from Europe....
 world empire
Empire

Empire derives from the Latin word imperium, denoting ?military command? in Roman. Politically, an empire is a geographically extensive group of states and peoples united and ruled either by a monarch or an oligarchy....
 and colonialism
Colonialism

Colonialism is the extension of a nation's sovereignty over Territory beyond its borders by the establishment of either settler or exploitation colony in which Indigenous people populations are direct rule, Population transfers, or Genocide....
 based on population growth
Population growth

Population growth is the change in population over time, and can be quantified as the change in the number of individuals in a population using "per unit time" for measurement....
 among "colored peoples
Colored

Colored is a North American euphemism once widely regarded as a description of black people , and also Native Americans in the United States. It should not be confused with the more recent term person of color, which attempts to describe all "non-white peoples", not just blacks....
". While Stoddard clearly holds racist
Racism

Racism, by its simplest definition is the belief that Race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race....
 views in his work, and the introduction contains scientific racist
Scientific racism

Scientific racism denotes the use of scientific, or ostensibly scientific, findings and methods to support or validate Racism attitudes and worldviews....
 theories, some of Stoddard's statements question the right of whites to invade other races. Stoddard outright criticizes the Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
an powers for attempting to force their will on Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
.

Modern interest in The Rising Tide of Color is often based on the accuracy
Accuracy and precision

In the fields of science, engineering, industry and statistics, accuracy is the degree of closeness of a Measure d or calculated quantity to its actual Value ....
 of the prediction
Prediction

A prediction is a statement or claim that a particular event will occur in the future in more certain terms than a forecasting. The etymology of this word is Latin ....
s the book makes, not on the racist tones in which the predictions are made. Stoddard's predictions, coming immediately after World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
, include: an impending war between Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
 and the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
; the unjust nature of the Treaty of Versailles
Treaty of Versailles

The Treaty of Versailles was one of the peace treaty at the end of World War I. It ended the declaration of war between German Empire and Allies of World War I....
 leading to a second European war; the rise and power of Islamism
Islamism

Islamism is a set of Ideologies of parties holding that Islam is not only a religion but also a political system; that modern Muslims must Islamic fundamentalism, and unite politically....
 in the Middle East
Middle East

File:GreaterMiddleEast1.pngThe Middle East is a region that spans southwestern Asia, western Asia, and northeastern Africa. It has no clear boundaries, often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East....
; Asian immigration to Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
; and the decline of colonialism.

Pop culture

The character Tom Buchanan in F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an United States writer of novels and short stories, whose works are evocative of the Jazz Age, a term he coined himself....
's 1925 novel The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby is a novel by the United States author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10, 1925, it is set in Long Island's North Shore and New York City during the summer of 1922....
 has an obsession with The Rise of the Coloured Empires by "this man Goddard" that leads him to be depressed on the state of the world. This book, and its fictional author, are a play upon Stoddard and his work, although "Goddard" might be a confusion with the eugenicist Henry H. Goddard
Henry H. Goddard

Henry Herbert Goddard was a prominent United States psychology and eugenics in the early 20th century. He is known especially for his 1912 work The Kallikak Family, which he himself came to regard as deeply flawed, and for being the first to translate the Alfred Binet intelligence quotient into English language in 1908 and distributing...
.

This book is cited in Oswald Spengler
Oswald Spengler

Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler was a German historian and philosopher whose interests also included mathematics, science, and art. He is best known for his book The Decline of the West in which he puts forth a cyclical pattern theory of the rise and decline of civilizations....
's similarly-themed book, The Hour of Decision. Aviator Charles Lindbergh
Charles Lindbergh

Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an United States aviator, author, inventor and explorer.On May 20?21, 1927, Lindbergh emerged instantaneously from virtual obscurity to world fame as the result of his Orteig Prize-winning solo non-stop flight from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in New York City to Paris - Le Bourget Airport in Paris in the s...
 was interested in eugenics and borrowed many themes from Spengler for his controversial Reader's Digest
Reader's Digest

File:Readers Digest00.jpgReader's Digest is a monthly general-interest family magazine co-founded in 1922 by Lila Bell Wallace and DeWitt Wallace....
 article entitled "Aviation, Geography, and Race."

Modern reviews

  • from the anti-immigration
    Nativism (politics)

    Nativism is an opposition to immigration or to specific ethnic or cultural groups because the groups are considered hostile or alien to the natural culture, and it is assumed that they cannot be assimilated....
     website VDARE
    VDARE

    VDARE.com, or VDARE, is a website that advocates reduced immigration, especially illegal immigration, into the United States. Former Forbes editor Peter Brimelow supports the site through his VDARE Foundation....
    .
  • from the white nationalist
    White nationalism

    White nationalism is a political ideology which advocates a racialism definition of national identity for white people, in opposition to multiculturalism....
     magazine American Renaissance
    American Renaissance (magazine)

    American Renaissance is a monthly racialist magazine published by the New Century Foundation. The magazine's founder Jared Taylor has been called a White separatism by the Southern Poverty Law Center....
    .


See also

  • Scientific racism
    Scientific racism

    Scientific racism denotes the use of scientific, or ostensibly scientific, findings and methods to support or validate Racism attitudes and worldviews....


External links

  • (1922 edn.) via Google Books