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The great white hoax : two centuries of selling racism in America / Philip Kadish.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kadish, Philip, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Racism--United States--History.
- Racism.
- Propaganda--United States--History.
- Propaganda.
- Hoaxes--United States--History.
- Hoaxes.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 353 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The New Press, [2025]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781620974124 (electronic bk.)
- 1620974126 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 40032814008
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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