Word: gobineau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would be a mistake to think that ideas are loss dangerous than actions. History shows otherwise, "Scientific" racists like Gobineau in the mid-nineteenth century and the anti-Semites of post-World War I Europe helped create atmospheres in which genocide was an intellectual possibility. More recently, some Cold War historians, describing a "monolithic Communist bloc," have given an academic cushion for an American government that indiscriminately opposes Communism...
...Including Social Theorist Count de Gobineau (Essay on the Inequality of Human Races, 1855) and Eugenicist Francis Gallon (Hereditary Genius...
...matter: "While Garvey opposed white race prejudice with black, DuBois combated racial arrogance and social chauvinism on both sides. This he did by making a scientific study of the so-called 'Negro Problem' and exposed the myth of 'racial superiority' expounded by such pseudo-biologists as Count Arthur de Gobineau, Houston-Stewart Chamberlin, Madison Grant and Lothrop Stoddard, the ideological fathers of Adolph Hitler and the racialists of America and South Africa...