Lothrop Stoddard.

Lothrop Stoddard (June 29, 1883–May 1, 1950), born Theodore Lothrop Stoddard, was an American political theorist, historian, eugenicist, and anti-immigration advocate who wrote a number of prominent books of early 20th-century scientific racism. Image File history File links Lothrop_Stoddard. ... Image File history File links Lothrop_Stoddard. ... June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 185 days remaining. ... 1883 (MDCCCLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... May 1 is the 121st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (122nd in leap years). ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Eugenics is the self-direction of human evolution: Logo from the Second International Congress of Eugenics, 1921, depicting it as a tree which unites a variety of different fields. ... It has been suggested that Race science be merged into this article or section. ...

Biography

Stoddard was born in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1883 to a prominent New England family. He attended Harvard College, graduating magna cum laude in 1905, and studied Law at Boston University until 1908. Stoddard received a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University in 1914, and was also an avid stamp collector. He published many books on what he saw as the peril of immigration, his most famous being The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy in 1920. In this book he presented a view of the world situation pertaining to race focusing concern on the coming population explosion among the "colored" peoples of the world and the way in which "white world-supremacy" was being lessened in the wake of World War I and the collapse of colonialism. Nickname: Location in Massachusetts Coordinates: Country United States State Massachusetts County Norfolk County Settled 1638 Incorporated 1705 Government  - Type Representative town meeting Area  - Town  6. ... Harvard Yard Harvard College is the undergraduate section and oldest school of Harvard University, having been founded in 1636. ... For similarly-named academic institutions, see Boston (disambiguation). ... History studies the past in human terms. ... Harvard University (incorporated as The President and Fellows of Harvard College) is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... Stamp collecting is the collecting of postage stamps and related objects, such as envelopes (cover)s. ... Stoddards analysis broke world politics and situations down to the white, yellow, black, and brown people and their interactions with each other. ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ... It has been suggested that Benign colonialism be merged into this article or section. ...

Stoddard's analysis broke world politics and situations down to the "white", "yellow", "black", and "brown" people and their interactions with each other.

In his book, Stoddard detailed how the "yellow" nations of Asia presented a very dangerous threat to White Supremacy, as the Chinese and Japanese were the only colored races not ruled by whites at the time. He documented the imperialist ambitions of Japan, the alarming population growth of China, and how the yellows represented the only race that could challenge whites in terms of technological advancement. Stoddard also warned that Muslims, most of whom belonged to the "brown" races, may also be a threat to white dominance because of their religious fanaticism. Image File history File links Lothrop Stoddards Distribution of the primary races from Lothrop Stoddard, The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy (New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1920). ... Image File history File links Lothrop Stoddards Distribution of the primary races from Lothrop Stoddard, The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy (New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1920). ... World map showing the location of Asia. ... A Muslim is a believer in or follower of Islam. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Stoddard argued that race and heredity were the guiding factors of history and civilization, and that the elimination or absorption of the white race by the colored races would result in the destruction of Western civilization. Like Madison Grant, Stoddard divided the white race into three main divisions: Nordic, Alpine, and Mediterranean. He considered all three to be of good stock, and far above the quality of the colored races, but argued that the Nordic was the greatest of the three and needed to be preserved by way of eugenics.

The predictions made in "The Rising Tide of Color" were strikingly accurate. They included: the rise of Japan as a major power, a war between Japan and the United States, a second war in Europe, the overthrow of European colonial rule in Africa and Asia, the mass migration of colored peoples to white nations, and, most interestingly of all, the rise of Islam as a threat to the West because of the religious fanaticism of Muslims {Stoddard was a scholar of Islam and wrote a book, "The New World of Islam," on this topic}.

The book was notable enough to receive a veiled mention in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, where the character Tom Buchanan was reading a book called The Rise of the Colored Empires by "this man Goddard", a combination of both Grant and Stoddard's name. "Everybody ought to read it", the character explained, "The idea is if we don't look out the white race will be — will be utterly submerged. It's all scientific stuff; it's been proved." Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940) was an American Jazz Age author of novels and short stories. ... The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. ...

Stoddard was appointed to the Board of Directors of the American Birth Control League, a forerunner to Planned Parenthood by Margaret Sanger. He was also a member of the American Historical Association, the American Political Science Association, and the Academy of Political Science. Stoddard was a lifelong Unitarian and Republican. The National Birth Control League had been formed by 1916. ... Planned Parenthoods Logo Planned Parenthood is the collective name of organizations worldwide who are members of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF). ... Margaret Higgins Sanger (September 14, 1879 – September 6, 1966) was an American birth control activist, an advocate of negative eugenics, and the founder of the American Birth Control League (which eventually became Planned Parenthood). ...

In The Revolt Against Civilization (1922) he put forward the theory that civilization places a growing burden on individuals, leading to a growing underclass of individuals who cannot keep up, and a 'ground-swell of revolt'. Stoddard advocated immigration restriction and birth control legislation in order to reduce the numbers of the underclass while promoting the growth of the middle and upper classes. He believed that social progress was impossible unless it was guided by a "neo-aristocracy" made up of the most capable individuals and reconciled with the findings of science rather than based on abstract idealism and egalitarianism.

After the passing of the Immigration Act of 1924, which severely limited immigration from southern and eastern Europe, Stoddard urged for white unity and the assimilation of the immigrants in his book "Reforging America." Unlike Madison Grant and others, who only concerned themselves with keeping America racially "Nordic", Stoddard acknowledged that the non-Nordic white peoples who were now in the country needed to be Americanized, and believed that the country could continue to function so long as it was mostly white and retained its Nordic, Anglo-Saxon core. Stoddard foresaw the coming racial struggle between white civilization and the colored world, and believed that animosity between white ethnic groups and nationalities had to be subsided if the white race was to survive. President Coolidge signs the immigration act on the White House South Lawn along with appropriation bills for the Veterans Bureau. ...

Stoddard authored over two dozen works, most related to race and civilization, echoing the themes of his previous works about the dangers posed to American culture and way of life by immigration and the threat posed to all of white civilization by the worldwide rebellion of colored peoples, fueled by whites' own misguided sentimentalism and support for colored independence.

During World War II he also wrote Into the Darkness (1940), about the effect of war on Nazi Germany. Stoddard was relatively nonpartisan in his coverage of the Nazi regime, but he did express concern for the welfare of the European Jewish community, foreseeing intense violence against the Jews. He was always wary of and often opposed to the Nazis, despite their common support for eugenics. In "The Rising Tide of Color", Stoddard had blasted the ethnic supremacism of the Germans, blaming the "Teutonic imperialists" for the outbreak of the First World War, and the Nazis, of course, simply carried this ethnic supremacism to more extreme ends. He opposed what he saw as the disuniting of the white peoples through intense nationalism within Europe. Nevertheless, after World War II, Stoddard's theories were judged as too closely aligned with those of the Nazis and he suffered a large drop in popularity. (Guterl 2004) His death in 1950 from cancer went almost entirely unreported, despite his previously broad readership and influence. (Fant 2000) Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Nazi Germany, or the Third Reich, commonly refers to Germany in the years 1933–1945, when it was under the firm control of the totalitarian and fascist ideology of the Nazi Party, with the Führer Adolf Hitler as dictator. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Cancer is a class of diseases or disorders characterized by uncontrolled division of cells and the ability of these to spread, either by direct growth into adjacent tissue through invasion, or by implantation into distant sites by metastasis (where cancer cells are transported through the bloodstream or lymphatic system). ...

Bibliography

• The French Revolution in San Domingo. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1914.
• Present-day Europe, its National States of Mind. New York: The Century Co., 1917.
• The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920.
• The New World of Islam. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1921.
• The Revolt Against Civilization: The Menace of the Under Man. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1922.
• Racial Realities in Europe. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924.
• Social Classes in Post-War Europe. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925.
• The Story of Youth. New York: Cosmopolitan book corporation, 1928.
• Luck, Your Silent Partner. New York: H. Liveright, 1929.
• Master of Manhattan, the life of Richard Croker. Londton: Longmans, Green and Co., 1931.
• Lonely America. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, and Co., 1932.
• Clashing Tides of Color. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935.
• Into the Darkness: Nazi Germany Today. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, inc., 1940.

See also

• Eugenics
• Ethnocentrism

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Works online

• The French Revolution in San Domingo (1914) via Google Books
• The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy (1922 edn.) via Google Books
• The Revolt Against Civilization: The Menace of the Under-man (1922) via Google Books; also available at: http://users.mo-net.com/mlindste/revltciv.html
• Into the Darkness (1940)

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References

• Guterl, Matthew Pratt. 2004. The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
• Fant, Jr. Gene C. (2000) "Stoddard, Lothrop", American National Biography Online.

Modern reviews

• "Stoddard Rediscovered" from the anti-immigration website VDARE.
• "A Warning from the Past" from the controversial magazine American Renaissance.
• Review of Into the Darkness by the Institute for Historical Review, an organization best known for their advocacy of Holocaust denial.