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The American Eugenics Party (AEP) was a white supremacist organization based in the United States that aimed to improve the genetic quality of the population. Founded in Los Angeles, California in the 1960s, the AEP held meetings in Long Beach and Santa Barbara. Members of the party included Samuel Andrisani, primary spokesperson and Education Manager; John S. Vanders, Public Relations Manager; and Robert Henderon, Chairman of the Race Relations Committee.
The AEP’s mission was founded on and motivated by eugenics and scientific racism. Key tenets of their platform include the deportation of all racialized Americans, the prohibition of miscegenation, maintaining unity among all white racists, and sterilizing lower income, incarcerated, or disabled white Americans.
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Publication released by the American Eugenics Party (AEP) on Nordicism. The AEP draw on various publications and studies to argue that Nordicism is unscientific and full of “contradictions”. To address these contradictions, the AEP provides a list of claims made by Nordicists and corresponding counterarguments. Some of these include the suggestions that Nordicists are involved in “race-mixing” despite opposing the genetic mixing of races, and that, contrary to Nordicists’ claims, there are higher rates of mental illness and illegitimate births among Nordic people than non-Nordic people. The publication also provides rebuttals to various claims and antisemitic stereotypes that Nordicists make about Jewish people. Overall, the publication argues Nordicism is preventing the “attainment of a Eugenic society” by causing “inter-caucasian strife”. The AEP concludes that it advocates “Caucasian Supremacy” and not Nordic supremacy.
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Purchased in 2025 from David Anthem, Bookseller.
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Nordicism is an example of scientific racism which claims that Northern and Northwestern Europeans, the ‘Nordic race’, are the superior racial group. Followers of this ideology believed that those without Nordic ancestry, which included Jewish people and Southern and Southeastern Europeans, were genetically inferior. Developing in the mid-19th century, Nordicism remained relevant throughout the 20th century and directly influenced the Immigration Act of 1924 in the United States and the ideological foundations of the Nazi party in Germany.
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Materials in this collection express racist, sexist and ableist views rooted in eugenics, the belief that the genetic makeup of the human population can be improved by limiting the ability of people deemed inferior from reproducing. There are derogatory statements and depictions throughout these publications that may be deeply upsetting and unsettling. These materials are being shared and maintained as they were created in keeping with Special Collections & Archives’ approach to language in archival descriptions, which prioritizes speaking openly about and clearly identifying problematic, harmful, and otherwise offensive records in the department’s holdings. This approach, while potentially upsetting, allows for the critical assessment and questioning of historical material by contemporary researchers.
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Created by JB Nov. 2025
Redescribed June 2026 by KLG.
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