American Renaissance (AR) is a monthly magazine published by the New Century Foundation, billed as a "literate, undeceived journal of race, immigration, and the decline of civility". Its detractors accuse it of being racist and white supremacist, although they usually concede that it is literate and intelligent. The magazine and foundation were created by Jared Taylor, with the first issue published in November 1990.
Among the most common themes in the magazine is that races differ in intelligence (with Ashkenazi Jews and East Asians being ranked highest, blacks being ranked lowest, and Caucasians being ranked in between), and behavior (see race and intelligence), that it is just as legitimate for white people to have loyalty to their own race and form organizations on their own behalf as it is for other ethnic groups to form such organizations as the NAACP and La Raza Unida, that immigration to First World nations such as the United States should be greatly curtailed and race_conscious, and that there is strong media bias on the race question, for instance, that hate crimes against white people are vastly underreported whereas similar crimes against minorities receive great attention.
The organization holds bi_annual conferences, which are invariably greeted by protestors.
The term renaissance, meaning literally “rebirth,” was first employed in 1855 by the French historian Jules Michelet (1798–1874) to refer to the “discovery of the world and of man” in the 16th century.
Renaissance historians rejected the medieval tripartite division of history that began with the creation, followed by the incarnation and the anticipated last judgment.
Although these contentions are valid to some degree, the Renaissance clearly was a time in which long-standing beliefs were tested; it was a period of intellectual ferment, preparing the ground for the thinkers and scientists of the 17th century, who were far more original than the Renaissance humanists.
Although the Americanrenaissance should by no means be considered a coherent school or movement, the writers included in this anthology responded to the same pressing issues of their times and stayed in conversation with each other through their writings.
American readers might have benefited from cheap pirated editions of novels and poems, but the unpredictability of copyright royalties meant that many authors had to support themselves through another occupation, such as editing or writing short journalistic criticism for a newspaper or magazine.
But their desire to root the writings of the renaissance in a nationalist historical tradition was always in service to the development of an American perspective that could take its place in the context of the other cultures of the world.
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