The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy

The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy

"The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy" is a book by Lothrop Stoddard published in 1920. The book focuses on the coming collapse of a white world empire and colonialism based on population growth among "colored peoples". While Stoddard clearly holds racist views in his work, and the introduction contains scientific racist theories, some of Stoddard's statements question the right of whites to invade other races. Stoddard outright criticizes the European powers for attempting to force their will on Asia.

Modern interest in "The Rising Tide of Color" is often based on the accuracy of the predictions the book makes, not on the racist tones in which the predictions are made. Stoddard's predictions, coming immediately after World War I, include: an impending war between Japan and the United States; the unjust nature of the Treaty of Versailles leading to a second European war; the rise and power of Islamism in the Middle East; Asian immigration to Australia; and the decline of colonialism.

Pop culture

The character Tom Buchanan in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel "The Great Gatsby" has an obsession with "The Rise of the Coloured Empires" by "this man Goddard" that leads him to be depressed on the state of the world. This book, and its fictional author, are a play upon Stoddard and his work, although "Goddard" might be a confusion with the eugenicist Henry H. Goddard.

This book is cited in Oswald Spengler's similarly-themed book, "The Hour of Decision" [http://home.alphalink.com.au/~radnat/spengler/hourfive.html] . Aviator Charles Lindbergh was interested in eugenics and borrowed many themes from Spengler for his controversial "Reader's Digest" article entitled "Aviation, Geography, and Race." [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,772983,00.html]

Modern reviews

* [http://www.vdare.com/locke/stoddard.htm "Stoddard Rediscovered"] from the anti-immigration website VDARE.
* [http://www.amren.com/001issue/001issue.html "A Warning from the Past"] from the white nationalist magazine "American Renaissance".

See also

*Scientific racism

External links

*" [http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC01572150&id=Nv7TeKoQuRYC&printsec=titlepage The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy] " (1922 edn.) via Google Books


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