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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[2025]
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Table of 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.
