Superior: The Fatal Return of Race Science. Angela Saini

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СКАЧАТЬ countries considered to be undesirable had been curbed by the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, the country’s first major law restricting immigrants. Twelve years later, three Harvard College graduates formed the Immigration Restriction League, arguing in favour of a literacy requirement for those who wanted to come to the US. The group’s secretary, Prescott Farnsworth Hall, used Darwin’s ideas of natural selection to caution against allowing into the country ‘undesirable’ immigrants who weren’t ‘kindred in habits, institutions and traditions to the original colonists’. In a lengthy racist tract in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in 1904, he added, ‘The doctrine is that the fittest survive; fittest for what? The fittest to survive in the particular environment in which the organisms are placed’ (his emphasis).

      By 1907 the Bellingham riots would see hundreds of white men, themselves recent arrivals from Europe, attack Indian immigrants living in the city of Bellingham in the state of Washington, blaming their ‘filthy and immodest habits’. Reportedly, seven hundred Indians had to flee. The local Bellingham Herald complained, ‘The Hindu is not a good citizen. It would require centuries to assimilate him, and this country need not take the trouble.’

      It was against this backdrop that a new ideologue emerged. In 1916 a wealthy American law graduate named Madison Grant published a book that took eugenics to another level. Grant was known as a conservationist (as one of the co-founders of Bronx Zoo in New York, he had lobbied to put Congolese man Ota Benga on display among the apes there in 1906) but he wasn’t a scientist. He recognised, however, the power of the language of science. In The Passing of the Great Race: or The Racial Basis of European History

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