occurring in the Western Hemisphere rather than in Emerson’s version of England. Such views placed Turner outside the club of pure Teutonists.
† Harold Hardraada (1015–66), king of Norway, also Harald III Sigurdsson, led an international life, in Norway, Scotland, and England and in Russia, Sicily, and Bulgaria, perhaps even in Jerusalem. Attempting to enforce his claim to the English throne, he died in battle at Stamford Bridge, Yorkshire, England, at the hands of the English king Harold II. Less than a month later Harold II died at Hastings, and William of Normandy became king of England.
* When Roosevelt and others spoke of “native Americans” at the turn of the twentieth century, they excluded people not of northern European descent. Indians, Negroes, Asians, and immigrants from southern and eastern Europe did not count as “native Americans.”
* Ross belonged to the mass of progressives like Roosevelt who termed the opponents of involuntary sterilization—such as social workers, immigrants, and African Americans—“sentimentalists.”
† For publicly criticizing the power of corporations and unrestricted immigration, Ross had run afoul of Mrs. Leland Stanford, a founder of the university. She forced President David Starr Jordan to fire Ross in 1900.
* While cherishing “climatic adaptability” as a dimension of race superiority, Ross laments the debility of hardy northerners once they move to warmer places.
* Ross did not agree, however, with other anthropologists (e.g., Sir Arthur Keith in England) that war served eugenic purposes. According to Ross, modern warfare had become so industrialized that it no longer served manly ends. In the twentieth century, warfare was more like “an extra-hazardous branch of engineering” with little material payoff.
* The IWW manifested a split between its leadership and its rank and file. The latter consisted of a mix of races and ethnicities, varying by location and industry, while the leadership consisted largely of Irish Americans.
* In 1900 the $1,311.72 balance of the fund was turned over to the New York Public Library for the purchase of books on “economic subjects.”
* Although Lowell appears here as a link in the degenerate-family chain leading to eugenic sterilization, she played a much broader role in the history of social work in New York State. A founder of the New York Charity Organization Society and the Consumers’ League of New York and other organizations devoted to poor and working-class women, she was pro-labor and anti-imperialist. Lowell formulated social work’s theoretical basis in her book Public Relief and Private Charity (1884).
* The belief that poor whites descended from antisocial English indentured servants was widely accepted well into the twentieth century. As late as 1941, the Harvard-educated Mississippi Delta planter William Alexander Percy described the “river rat” of the lower Mississippi River as a descendant of English debt prisoners. Percy characterized the Anglo-Saxon river rat of “pure English stock” as “illiterate, suspicious, intensely clannish, blond, and usually ugly…the most unprepossessing [breed] on the face of the ill-populated earth.” Like many elite white southerners, Percy blamed racial violence on these poor whites, whom he considered inferior to “the Negro.”
* Jordan’s eugenic publications include The Religion of a Sensible American (1909), Blood of the Nation: A Study of the Decay of Races through the Survival of the Unfit (1910), and The Heredity of Richard Roe: A Discussion of the Principles of Eugenics (1911). Blood of the Nation: A Study of the Decay of Races through the Survival of the Unfit is still in print, for sale for $19.50 through the Forbes Magazine book club. Two high schools and two middle schools in California are named for Jordan.
* Goddard also served
† Harold Hardraada (1015–66), king of Norway, also Harald III Sigurdsson, led an international life, in Norway, Scotland, and England and in Russia, Sicily, and Bulgaria, perhaps even in Jerusalem. Attempting to enforce his claim to the English throne, he died in battle at Stamford Bridge, Yorkshire, England, at the hands of the English king Harold II. Less than a month later Harold II died at Hastings, and William of Normandy became king of England.
* When Roosevelt and others spoke of “native Americans” at the turn of the twentieth century, they excluded people not of northern European descent. Indians, Negroes, Asians, and immigrants from southern and eastern Europe did not count as “native Americans.”
* Ross belonged to the mass of progressives like Roosevelt who termed the opponents of involuntary sterilization—such as social workers, immigrants, and African Americans—“sentimentalists.”
† For publicly criticizing the power of corporations and unrestricted immigration, Ross had run afoul of Mrs. Leland Stanford, a founder of the university. She forced President David Starr Jordan to fire Ross in 1900.
* While cherishing “climatic adaptability” as a dimension of race superiority, Ross laments the debility of hardy northerners once they move to warmer places.
* Ross did not agree, however, with other anthropologists (e.g., Sir Arthur Keith in England) that war served eugenic purposes. According to Ross, modern warfare had become so industrialized that it no longer served manly ends. In the twentieth century, warfare was more like “an extra-hazardous branch of engineering” with little material payoff.
* The IWW manifested a split between its leadership and its rank and file. The latter consisted of a mix of races and ethnicities, varying by location and industry, while the leadership consisted largely of Irish Americans.
* In 1900 the $1,311.72 balance of the fund was turned over to the New York Public Library for the purchase of books on “economic subjects.”
* Although Lowell appears here as a link in the degenerate-family chain leading to eugenic sterilization, she played a much broader role in the history of social work in New York State. A founder of the New York Charity Organization Society and the Consumers’ League of New York and other organizations devoted to poor and working-class women, she was pro-labor and anti-imperialist. Lowell formulated social work’s theoretical basis in her book Public Relief and Private Charity (1884).
* The belief that poor whites descended from antisocial English indentured servants was widely accepted well into the twentieth century. As late as 1941, the Harvard-educated Mississippi Delta planter William Alexander Percy described the “river rat” of the lower Mississippi River as a descendant of English debt prisoners. Percy characterized the Anglo-Saxon river rat of “pure English stock” as “illiterate, suspicious, intensely clannish, blond, and usually ugly…the most unprepossessing [breed] on the face of the ill-populated earth.” Like many elite white southerners, Percy blamed racial violence on these poor whites, whom he considered inferior to “the Negro.”
* Jordan’s eugenic publications include The Religion of a Sensible American (1909), Blood of the Nation: A Study of the Decay of Races through the Survival of the Unfit (1910), and The Heredity of Richard Roe: A Discussion of the Principles of Eugenics (1911). Blood of the Nation: A Study of the Decay of Races through the Survival of the Unfit is still in print, for sale for $19.50 through the Forbes Magazine book club. Two high schools and two middle schools in California are named for Jordan.
* Goddard also served
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