The great white hoax two centuries of selling racism in America
Fake news, outright political lies, a shamelessly partisan press, and the collapse of truth, civility, and shared facts, Philip Kadish argues, are nothing new. The Great White Hoax, a masterpiece of history and literary sleuthing, reveals that the era of Fox News and Donald Trump is simply a return...
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| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a Fake news, outright political lies, a shamelessly partisan press, and the collapse of truth, civility, and shared facts, Philip Kadish argues, are nothing new. The Great White Hoax, a masterpiece of history and literary sleuthing, reveals that the era of Fox News and Donald Trump is simply a return to form. We have been here before. In a book that brilliantly puts our current era into historical context, The Great White Hoax uncovers a centuries-long tradition of white supremacist hoaxes, perpetrated on the American public by a succession of political hucksters and opportunists, all of them willfully using racial frauds as tools for political and social advantage. In the antebellum era, slavery's defenders used bogus science to "prove" the inferiority of American people; during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln's enemies circulated a sham pamphlet accusing him of promoting a dilution of the white race through "miscegenation" (a racist term invented by the pamphlet's authors). From these murky beginnings, author Philip Kadish draws a direct thread to Thomas Dixon Jr.'s Birth of a Nation, Henry Ford's the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Madison Grant's embrace of eugenics (which directly influenced Adolf Hitler), Alabama Governor George Wallace's race-baiting, and Roger Ailes's creation of Fox News. The Great White Hoax reveals white supremacy as today's real "fake news"-and exposes the cast of villains, past and present, who have kept American racism alive. | ||
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