Nineteenth-century racial Anglo-Saxonism coexisted with assimilationist cosmopolitanism
Evidence
Still the Anglo-Saxonists were pro rather than con. During the age of confidence almost no race-thinker directly challenged a tolerant and eclectic attitude toward other European groups. Instead, Anglo-Saxon and cosmopolitan nationalisms merged in a happy belief that the Anglo-Saxon has a marvelous capacity for assimilating kindred races, absorbing their valuable qualities, yet remaining basically unchanged. — John Higham, Strangers in the Land, 199
Categorization
- XREF: Evidence that race-thinking and an open immigration welcome were compatible in this era — relevant to reader’s model of enemy categories as transitional forms. — connects to: Assimilationist gradualism recycled racist readiness rationales for empire — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 750; Assimilationism is a racist stance despite affirming biological racial equality — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 15; Colonialism replaced Enlightenment universalism with ideologies of inherent racial inferiority — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 130
Broader Connections
- Assimilationist gradualism recycled racist readiness rationales for empire
#corroborates(0.85) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 750 - Assimilationism is a racist stance despite affirming biological racial equality
#qualifies(0.80) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 15 - Colonialism replaced Enlightenment universalism with ideologies of inherent racial inferiority
#corroborates(0.75) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 130