Madison Grant

Madison Grant
Grant in the early 1920s
Born(1865-11-19)November 19, 1865
New York City, U.S.
DiedMay 30, 1937(1937-05-30) (aged 71)
New York City, U.S.
Resting placeSleepy Hollow Cemetery in Tarrytown, New York
NationalityAmerican
Alma materColumbia University
Yale University
Occupation(s)Lawyer, writer, zoologist
Known forEugenics, Scientific racism, The Passing of the Great Race, Nordicism

Madison Grant (November 19, 1865 – May 30, 1937) was an American lawyer, zoologist, anthropologist, and writer known for his work as a conservationist, eugenicist, and advocate of scientific racism. Grant is less noted for his far-reaching achievements in conservation than for his pseudoscientific advocacy of Nordicism, a form of racism which views the "Nordic race" as superior.[1][2]

As a white supremacist eugenicist, Grant was the author of The Passing of the Great Race (1916), one of the most famous racist texts, and played an active role in crafting immigration restriction and anti-miscegenation laws in the United States.[3][4] As a conservationist, he is credited with the saving of species including the American bison,[5] helped create the Bronx Zoo, Glacier National Park, and Denali National Park, and co-founded the Save the Redwoods League.[6] Grant developed much of the discipline of wildlife management.[7]

  1. ^ Purdy, Jedediah (2015). "Environmentalism's Racist History". The New Yorker. Archived from the original on 2015-11-22. Retrieved 2022-08-15.
  2. ^ "Madison Grant (U.S. National Park Service)". U.S. National Park Service. Archived from the original on 2022-06-07. Retrieved 2022-08-15.
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  5. ^ Spiro 2009, p. 67, 136.
  6. ^ Hoff, Aliya. "Madison Grant (1865–1937)". The Embryo Project Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2022-08-15.
  7. ^ Spiro 2009, p. 72.