racism

Basically, as I understand it, the conception that "race" is defined by inherent biological characteristics, and the *White Europeans are superior to all other races is a very modern conception, the product of the last few hundred years. As I understand, this wasn't the case in the ancient...

In recent years — to some extent ever since reading Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America) by Mary Dudziak — I have been interested in alternate histories where the United States’ racial policies lead it to be subject...

Gilberto Freyre was an important intellectual who shaped a lot about how Brazilians think about race relations in the country. He basically argued that Brazil has always been a society of interracial relationships, arguing, for example, that the relationship between slaveowners and their slaves...

It is now 2022, we are 90 years from the formation of the U.S. Department of Eugenics, formed 4 years after the Supreme Court ruled in 1928, in Buck v. Bell, that "genetic hygiene" was ruled a "compelling state interest". At the time supported by Thomas Edison, Nikola Tesla, and Henry Ford. Yet...

It was once believed that humanity originated in the Caucasus Mountains, something which is obviously untrue. What if the Caucasians built a political movement around this, presenting themselves as being racially and culturally purer than other groups?

In a world where Nazism didn't exist, would ideas like Anti-Semitism and racial supremacy still be relevant? Would the civil rights movement have a harder time gaining support? Would segregation last longer?

The Dyer Anti-Lynching bill was proposed in 1918 to make a federal ban on lynching, and it was definitively defeated in 1922, and according to the wikipedia page the USA only banned lynching in 2018, 100 years after. With a 1900 PoD, can we make the bill pass?

Okay, so basically, the 1800s OTL saw a huge rise in racism and imperialism. In fact, it was the golden age of both racism and imperialism in Europe. How can we switch that around and make it so, as science progresses, imperialism proves, while at first easy, eventually something rather...

So, I received my copy of Rome West today, and was wondering if anybody would like to help me flesh it out a little bit. A bit of background: Rome West is an alternate history comic book originally released online and published in physical form by Dark Horse Comics. The PoD is a Roman fleet...

I'm currently re-writing my Dewey Wins TL and I was wondering whether a white supremacist paramilitary group would be plausible in the South during the early Civil Rights movement.

With no PoDs prior to 1880, how can the rise of eugenics as a “respectable” science and basis for social policy, that OTL saw over roughly the next half century, he prevented or as diminished as possible?

So I’m reading Robert Kennedy and his Times by Arthur Schlesinger Jr., and in one chapter Schlesinger talks about how when Kennedy’s friend Byron White sent William Orrick down to the South, Orrick joked that he felt like he was in Russia because there was not an American flag in sight. Only...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Order_(Nazism)#Plans_for_an_African_colonial_domain Hitler's geopolitical thoughts about Africa always occupied a secondary position to his expansionist aims in Europe itself. His public announcements prior to outbreak of the war that Germany's former colonies...

Here's a link to an online copy for those who want to read it themselves. Given that it was published in 1910, its more of a Future History novel than an Alternate History novel but whatever. I'm not here to try to seriously discuss this story, so much as I am here to just... complain about it...

As we all know well, the controversy over Confederate statues and the battle flag still continues we know this thanks to some idiot named Dylan Roof who thought it would be a great idea to kill black people at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina (same city where the first shots of the...

So the KKK was at its height in the 1920's with millions of followers nationwide, but was beset by incompetent and corrupt leaders. What would happen if the Klan of this time period had a charismatic Hitler-like figure to lead it? Would it become a much more powerful force in American politics...

Your challenge, should you choos to accept it, is to create the strongest possible KKK you can without dipping into ASB. I'm looking more for the 20's Klan than the 60's/70's Klan, but you can choose whichever 'generation' you want. If you can get it to become some sort of unofficial...

In 1901, following Federation, the Immigration Restriction Act was passed, effectively barring non-Europeans from emigrating to the newly minted Australia. The origins of this lie in a backlash against Chinese miners in the New South Wales goldfields and increasing market penetration from...

So, if you know what doesn't occur, what's the status of women and other minorities by the 21st century. I mean without the Holocaust, eugenics wouldn't have had a (well deserved) backlash and Racism would possibly be more acceptable as there wouldn't be an example of Racism's symptoms when...

In the spirit of Not Our Hour, anyone who wishes to may add to this story. CBS News, March 7, 1965 WALTER CRONKITE: We are just getting a report... from Selma, Alabama... that state troopers have opened fire on demonstrators marching from Selma to Montgomery. Casualties appear to be heavy...