Progressive Era Racism and its (Jewish) Discontents

Luca Fiorito () and Tiziana Foresti ()

Department of Economics University of Siena from Department of Economics, University of Siena

Abstract: This work analyzes the contribution to the debates on labor and immigration of a group of Jewish academicians and reformers who, during the second half of the Progressive Era, explicitly took a stance against the racialist and eugenic rhetoric of the period. This group includes first-rank economists like Edwin R. A. Seligman, Jacob H. Hollander, and Emanuel A. Goldenweiser; influential field specialists such as Isaac A. Hourwich and Isaac M. Rubinow; and relatively less known figures like Max J. Kohler and Samuel K. Joseph. By focusing on the voices of these dissenters, the work enriches the emerging picture of Progressive Era eugenic and racial thought

Keywords: American Progressive Era; Edwin R. A. Seligman; Immigration; Race; Anti-Semitism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B1 B15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-11
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