White Supremacy Literature Trivia Question

I'm sitting here reading some early twentieth century literature for a paper on the eugenics movement in North Carolina and, well, holy smokes.  I want to talk soon about a college textbook that basically is concerned with the control of women.  Well educated women are supposed to have more children, whether they want them or not.  And poorly educated women are supposed to be sterilized (or at least discouraged from having more children).  Holy cow.  Lots to talk about there -- I'm sure Bridget Crawford and Ann Bartow will love that book.

But right now I want to ask a trivia question related to this paragraph, which is more about white supremacy generally.  Which book begins in this way:

The man who, on a quiet spring evening of the year 1914, opened his atlas to a political map of the world and pored over its many-tinted patterns probably got one fundamental impression: the overwhelming preponderance of the white race in the ordering of the world’s affairs.  Judged by accepted canons of statecraft, the white man towered the indisputable master of the planet.  Forth from Europe’s teeming mother-hive the imperious Sons of Japhet had swarmed for centuries to plant their laws, their customs, and their battle-flags at the uttermost ends of the earth.  Two whole continents, North America and Australia, had been made virtually as white in blood as the European motherland; two other continents, South America and Africa, had been extensively colonized by white stocks; while even huge Asia had seen its empty northern march, Siberia, pre-empted for the white man’s abode.  Even where white populations had not locked themselves to the soil few regions of the earth had escaped the white man’s imperial sway, and vast areas inhabited by uncounted myriads of dusky folk obeyed the white man’s will.

Not a lot surprises me about the early twentieth century literature on white supremacy.  But, well, yikes.

Comments

[Bob Strassfeld]

My first guess was going to be Madison Grant's The Passing of the Great Race, but I looked, and that's not it. I think it is Lothrop Stoddard's, The Rising Tide of Color against White World-Supremacy.

Bob

[Alfred Brophy]

You're right, Bob -- Stoddard's Rising Tide of Color. Pretty scary, no? The entire text is available here: https://archive.org/details/risingtideofcolo00stoduoft

Stoddard and Grant shared a lot in common, obviously. Close readers of the faculty lounge may recall that I blogged a little bit about Stoddard last summer around the time that the Great Gatsby movie came out: http://www.thefacultylounge.org/2013/05/great-gatsby-and-the-1920s-version-of-product-placement.html