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Article: The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund.(Book Review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
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- February 1, 2006
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The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund. By William H. Tucker. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2002. Pp. [xii], 286. $34.95, ISBN 0-252-02762-0.)
William H. Tucker's thorough and careful book is broader than its subtitle suggests. The dissemination of racist propaganda by Wickliffe Draper, a multimillionaire, and his aides, allies, and successors lasted through seven decades. In telling this story, Tucker both shows that classic scientific racist theories continued to influence American life long after their heyday in the decade after World War I and reveals that purveyors of those theories found allies among ...