The great white hoax : two centuries of selling racism in America / Philip Kadish.

Author/creator Kadish, Philip author.
Format Book
PublicationNew York : The New Press, [2025]
Descriptionviii, 353 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction : American racism and the long prehistory of post-truth -- The lying truth : the two types of great white hoax -- The great W.A.S.P. Hoax : the Maria Monk Hoax of 1835 -- "The unsoundness and the wickedness of this work" : the American School of Ethnology, 1830 to 1850s -- "Ingenious and audacious machinery" : the miscegenation hoax of 1864 -- "A cruel hoax on the American people" : Thomas Dixon, the Ku Klux Klan, and lies of lynch culture, 1870s to 1920s -- "Our own game" : Henry Ford and the Gotham eugenicists, 1910s to 1940s -- A new "sweet science" of racism : George Wallace and the transition years, from the Civil Rights Era to the threshold of today -- Epilogue : unearthing the great white hoax : an origin story and a model man.
Abstract "A new history of the forgeries, bogus science, rigged data, and fake news that keep American racism alive"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2025009141
ISBN9781620974117
ISBN1620974118 hardcover
ISBNelectronic book

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