Adam Serwer On White Nationalism’s American Roots

It’s Been A Minute : Adam Serwer On White Nationalism’s American Roots Image
It’s Been A Minute : Adam Serwer On White Nationalism’s American Roots Image

Adam Serwer On White Nationalism’s American Roots

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Atlantic staff writer Adam Serwer explains how racism and white nationalism were deeply embedded in America not just from its founding, but throughout the 20th century — and how one man corralled those ideas into a grand pseudo-scientific theory that influenced US immigration policy and eventually Nazi Germany. His article about that man, Madison Grant, is called ‘White Nationalism’s Deep American Roots.’ Email the show at samsanders@npr.org