The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy

The Rising Tide of Color (1920) is a deeply troubling work of racialist propaganda that predicted the decline of white global dominance due to rising non-white populations, nationalist movements, and Asian industrialization. Written by Lothrop Stoddard, a prominent eugenicist and Harvard-trained historian, the book advocates for Nordicism, strict racial segregation, anti-immigration policies targeting non-whites, and the restriction of miscegenation as solutions to preserve white supremacy. The text was influential in early 20th-century white nationalist circles and shaped immigration restriction arguments in the United States. While historically significant as a document of early völkisch thought and the racial politics of the interwar period, this is not a book presented for endorsement or entertainment. It is of interest to scholars studying the intellectual history of white supremacy, the eugenics movement, and the ideological roots of modern racism.