Lothrop Stoddard

The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-supremacy Lothrop Stoddard

This book was made famous by a one-page mention in "The Great Gatsby", a novel which remains today the most popular work of fiction ever written. These lines were also repeated word for word in the movie by that name starring Robert Redford. This book, "The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy" is one of the most virulently racist books ever written. However, it makes some perfectly valid points. The main point to the book is that it was written in 1920. World War I, then called "The Great War", had just ended with 15 million people killed. The author states that with White European People constantly killing each other and with the so-called "Colored People" not killing each other, or at least not so frequently, plus having a higher birth rate, the inevitable result will be that the "colored people" will take over the whole world including Europe. He points out that the Japanese had just defeated Russia in the Russo-Japanese War, the first time an Asian nation had ever defeated an European nation, and he correctly predicted that soon Japan would attack America.