StarrNarrative

  U.S. Racism: a Major Influence on the Nazis By David Starr If one researched the history of U.S. racism up to the present time, and compared it with the racism of Nazi Germany, one would find disturbing similarities.  U.S. racism is a strain of U.S. ultranationalism, a precursor to the Nazi version. Particularly, in the 1890s going into the 1900s, U.S. ultranationalism erupted on the world stage characterized by the eugenics movement, the Spanish-American War, and the Philippine-American War. All three were brutally barbaric, reflecting the accusations made by the perpetrators who, ironically, thought of people of color as “barbaric.”  In the U.S., although slavery was officially abolished after the Civil War, residues of slavery continued in the form of racism against people of color by ultranationalist whites, i.e., those who thought they were the “true Americans.” A book review  by Rebecca Brenner Graham in  Black Perspectives  looks at  Hitler’s ...