Polygenesis ranked races hierarchically with Aryans as the supreme creators

Evidence

Gobineau’s demand for France’s return to aristocracy included an analysis of the “colossal truth” of racial hierarchy, of polygenesis. The intelligent White lovers of liberty were at the top; the yellow race was the “middle class”; and at the bottom were the greedy, sexual Black people. Blacks’ abnormal physical traits had developed to compensate for their stupidity, Gobineau wrote. Within the White species, the Aryan was supreme—and was the supreme maker of all great civilizations in history the world over. Germans embraced Gobineau, especially since he said Aryans were “la race germanique.” — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 526

Categorization

• XREF: The Aryan supremacy thread connects to later Nazi ideology and to twentieth-century eugenics — a genealogy worth tracing forward through this book and beyond. — connects to: Renan attributed medieval Islamic science to Aryans, not Arabs, to preserve his racial hierarchy. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 347; Racecraft’s real function is preserving racial hierarchy