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Barcode30053003865733
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call No305.8009 73 KADI
Title The great white hoax : two centuries of selling racism in America / Philip Kadish.
Author Kadish, Philip author
CollectionNEW: Adult 300-399
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 Paris-Bourbon30053003865733305.8009 73 KADI6/24/2025 Available

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Personal Name Kadish, Philip author
Title Statement The great white hoax : two centuries of selling racism in America / Philip Kadish.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : The New Press, 2025.
Physical Description viii, 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-333) and index.
Formatted Contents Note 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 and the "Epic of the hoax" -- "That almight dollar is the thing" : 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.
Summary, Etc. "A new history of the forgeries, bogus science, rigged data, and fake news that keep American racism alive"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Racism History United States
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Propaganda History. United States
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Hoaxes History. United States
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term United States Race relations

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