Tigermedia - Racism, Eugenics & Antisemitism: Connections between Jim Crow and the Nuremberg Race Laws
Racism, Eugenics & Antisemitism: Connections between Jim Crow and the Nuremberg Race Laws
Date: November 30th, 2023
Duration:
1h:8m:33s
Hitler and the Nazis looked to the US’s eugenics movement, Jim Crow laws, and culture of white supremacy in their quest to racialize European Jews, a policy that was first enshrined in the 1935 Nuremberg Race Laws. In this conversation, Tom White, Coordinator of Educational Outreach at the Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College discusses the legal and political influences of America’s racial terrorism upon the Nazi’s genocidal policies.
This talk was a collaboration between Queensborough Community College’s Harriet & Kenneth Kupferberg Holocaust Center and New York City College of Technology (City Tech)'s Ursula C. Schwerin Library in support of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s traveling exhibition, “Americans and the Holocaust” which examines how Americans reacted to Nazism, war, refugees, and genocide before and during the Second World War. The event was co-sponsored by the Ray Wolpow Institute for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at Western Washington University; the Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College; the Holocaust & Human Rights Center in White Plains; the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University; the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center in Cincinnati; and the Institute for Human Rights at The University of Alabama at Birmingham.