Princeton and Stanford professors published racial hierarchies placing new immigrants above only African Americans

Evidence

What was left to racism was merely to postulate a systematic, and genetically reproduced distribution of such material attributes of human organism as bore responsibility for characterological, moral, aesthetic or political traits. Even this job, however, had already been done for them by respectable and justly respected pioneers of science, seldom if ever listed among the luminaries of racism. Observing sine ira et studio the reality as they found it, they could hardly miss the tangible, material, indubitably ‘objective’ superiority that the West enjoyed over the rest of the inhabited world. Thus the father of scientific taxonomy, Linnaeus, recorded the division between the residents of Europe and inhabitants of Africa with the same scrupulous precision as that which he applied while describing the difference between crustacea and fishes. — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 199 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Immigration insecurity shaped even the Institute’s published word choices — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 615; European immigrants’ racial difference had to be intellectually manufactured — John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of…, 768; Ethnicity emerged as a status upgrade over race for Europeans (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Respectable scientific pioneers, not just racists, furnished racism’s racial hierarchies #exemplifies (0.92) — Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust, 199