Trump’s Nordicism is not a new thing. It was prevalent amongst eugenicists in the early 20th century. It is this theory to which F. Scott Fitzgerald adhered and which underlies the argument that Jay Gatsby is a mixed-race character through which Fitzgerald expressed the nation’s racial anxieties. It is in America’s social fabric and thus in the fabric of one of its greatest novels.
“Jay Gatsby: A Black Man in Whiteface”
I really would like you to read it. It matters.
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