Lothrop Stoddard | |
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| Born | Theodore Lothrop Stoddard June 29, 1883 Brookline, Massachusetts, United States |
| Died | May 1, 1950 (aged 66) Washington, D.C., United States |
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| Organizations | |
| Notable work | The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy (1920) |
| Other political affiliations | Ku Klux Klan |
| Board member of | American Birth Control League |
| Father | John Lawson |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance |  United States |
| Service |  United States Army |
| Unit | Signal corps |
| Battles / wars | Philippine–American War |
Theodore Lothrop Stoddard (June 29, 1883 – May 1, 1950) was an American historian, journalist, political scientist and white supremacist. Stoddard wrote several books which advocated eugenics, white supremacy, Nordicism, and scientific racism, including The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy (1920). He advocated a racial hierarchy which he believed needed to be preserved through anti-miscegenation laws. Stoddard's books were once widely read both inside and outside the United States.
He was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, where his books were recommended reading.[1][2][3][4] He was also a member of the American Eugenics Society[5] as well as a founding member and board member of the American Birth Control League, which would later become the Planned Parenthood Federation of America.[6]
Stoddard's work influenced the Nazi government of Germany. His book The Revolt Against Civilization: The Menace of the Under-man (1922) introduced the term Untermensch (the German translation of "Under-man") into Nazi conceptions of race. He traveled as a journalist in Germany during the first months of World War II, during which he received preferential treatment for interviews with Nazi officials and met briefly with Adolf Hitler.[7] After the war, Stoddard's writing faded from popularity.
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- ^ African Fundamentalism: A Literary and Cultural Anthology of Garvey's Harlem Renaissance
- ^ Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan
- ^ The Ku Klux Klan: History, Organization, Language, Influence and Activities of America's Most Notorious Secret Society, p. 99. "Stoddard, Lothrop - The 1920s exalted cyclops of Massachusetts Provisional Klan No. 1"
- ^ Messall, Rebecca R. (2018). "Book Review: An Image of God: The Catholic Struggle with Eugenics". The Linacre Quarterly. 85 (3): 299–306. doi:10.1177/0024363918777508. ISSN 0024-3639. PMC 6161230.
- ^ Carey, Jane (2012-11-01). "The Racial Imperatives of Sex: birth control and eugenics in Britain, the United States and Australia in the interwar years". Women's History Review. 21 (5): 733–752. doi:10.1080/09612025.2012.658180. ISSN 0961-2025. S2CID 145199321.
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