From Dixie to the Third Reich
Review of Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law, by James Q. Whitman (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017)
… to the United States with unbridled admiration for the way in which the latter kept “bloodlines pure.” “Nazi … law” (p. 5). This argument revolutionizes the discussion of comparative racism and our understanding of the influence of … in the United States and the Third Reich. Whitman weaves together a story of exclusion within the United States which, …