Content note: A 1920 book that ranks peoples by race and argues for keeping "white world-supremacy"; it uses period racial terms and stereotypes throughout, and its introduction by Madison Grant endorses the same views. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Lothrop Stoddard's 1920 book, which sets out its thesis in its title: that peoples it classes as non-white were rising against the political dominance ("world-supremacy") of those it classes as white. It was published by Scribner's in New York in April 1920 and reprinted several times that year and the next. It is hosted as it was published, in full, as a primary source for the racial-science and immigration arguments of its period, with a content note; hosting it is not endorsing it.
The volume carries an introduction by Madison Grant, author of The Passing of the Great Race (1916). Grant's introduction endorses Stoddard's argument and adds Grant's own racial scheme, so it is the writing of an advocate of the same views, not a neutral editor's note. It is kept, with its heading, so the edition is shown as it was.
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- Preface 644 words
- Introduction by Madison Grant 5,177 words
- Part I: The Rising Tide of Color
- 1. The World of Color 3,251 words
- 2. Yellow Man's Land 8,708 words
- 3. Brown Man's Land 7,655 words
- 4. Black Man's Land 4,004 words
- 5. Red Man's Land 8,798 words
- Part II: The Ebbing Tide of White
- 6. The White Flood 1,937 words
- 7. The Beginning of the Ebb 4,416 words
- 8. The Modern Peloponnesian War 5,760 words
- 9. The Shattering of White Solidarity 5,479 words
- Part III: The Deluge on the Dikes
- 10. The Outer Dikes 2,443 words
- 11. The Inner Dikes 14,876 words
- 12. The Crisis of the Ages 2,744 words
- Footnotes 2,255 words
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Provenance and rights
- Edition
- The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy, with an introduction by Madison Grant. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, published April 1920 (reprinted 1920-21; Project Gutenberg's proofread transcription)
- Text source
- Project Gutenberg, ebook #37408
- Text basis
- Proofread transcription by Project Gutenberg's Distributed Proofreaders. The author's footnotes, gathered at the end of the Gutenberg text, are given as a final section; their numbers match the markers in the text. The book's three maps are not reproduced.
- Rights
- Published in the United States in 1920, so in the public domain in the United States (published before 1931); Project Gutenberg marks the ebook public domain in the USA. Stoddard died in 1950 and Grant, who wrote the introduction, in 1937. Checked October 2, 2026.
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- Line wraps rejoined and headings set in title case; the Project Gutenberg licence header and footer removed. Wording, spelling and punctuation are the source's own. The contents list, the list of maps, the three maps and the index are left out; the footnotes are moved to the end of the book as one section. The introduction by Madison Grant is kept in full.
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