author
Lothrop Stoddard
1883–1950
A Harvard-trained historian and journalist, he became one of the most widely read American writers promoting eugenics and white-supremacist racial theories in the early 20th century. His books, especially The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy (1920), were influential in their day and remain important mainly as documents of racist ideology.
2 Audiobooks
The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy
by Lothrop Stoddard
The New World of Islam
by Lothrop Stoddard
About the author
Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1883, Theodore Lothrop Stoddard studied at Harvard, graduating magna cum laude before later earning a Ph.D. in history there. He also studied law at Boston University and worked as a historian, journalist, and political writer.
Stoddard is chiefly remembered for books that argued for eugenics, Nordicism, and a racial hierarchy, including The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy. His writing reflected and helped spread ideas now recognized as scientific racism, and his work has been cited as part of the broader climate that fed white-supremacist thought in the United States and Europe.
He died in Washington, D.C., in 1950. Today, his name is less associated with mainstream historical scholarship than with the history of racism, nativism, and exclusionary political thought in the first half of the 20th century.