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For the magazine about renaissance faires, see Renaissance Magazine

American Renaissance (abbreviated AR or AmRen) is a monthly racialist magazine published by the New Century Foundation.[1]

The magazine and foundation were founded by Jared Taylor, and the first issue was published in November 1990. A main theme of the magazine is a claim that non-white minorities pose a demographic threat to the United States and other Western nations. The magazine argues that the United States' major social problems are due to racial diversity and a weakening of the country's white racial heritage by increased non-white immigration.

The magazine's arguments are usually explained using social science and genetics, but some issues of AR have featured theological arguments. One argument has been that interracial and inter-cultural marriage is racial suicide and an unequal yoking, and that such unions "go against the very community which marriage is designed to establish."[2] The magazine and foundation promote the view that differences in educational outcomes and per capita incomes between racial populations can be attributed at least in part to differences in intelligence between races.

American Renaissance and the New Century Foundation are alleged to have had links with organizations and individuals such as: the Council of Conservative Citizens, the Pioneer Fund, the British National Party, Don Black and David Duke.[3][4] The organization has held bi-annual conferences that are open to the public and that attract 200 - 300 people. Critics say that some of those who attend are neo-Nazis, white nationalists, white separatists, Ku Klux Klan members, Holocaust deniers and eugenicists (as well as numerous protestors).[5] Taylor has written that the magazine welcomes Jews as writers and conference speakers.[6] Contributors to the magazine and conferences have included Stephen Webster, Michael Levin, Nick Griffin, Bruno Gollnisch, J. Philippe Rushton, Ian Jobling, Glenn Spencer, Lawrence Auster, Richard Lynn, Sam Dickson, and Samuel Francis. It is, nevertheless, sometimes conceded that these movements can attract and rouse an unhelpful followership that voice subtly antisemitic sentiments; some of which the magazine publishes. For instance:

"Sir — I read with interest Jared Taylor’s article, “Jews and American Renaissance,” in the May 2006 issue. I understand and respect his point of view, but it does not take a “blasted Nazi” to know what certain Jews and groups of Jews, using their enormous influence and power, have done to this country over the last 100 years. They played leading roles in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s, and they were in the forefront of efforts to pass the Immigration Act of 1965 — the nightmarish demographic results of which we are now experiencing... I would oppose a blanket condemnation of all Jews, but we must be knowledgeable, alert and careful with regard to these people." - John W. Altman (Vol. 17, No. 7, July 2006)

The magazine’s July 2007 cover story, “Wikipedia on Race,” contends that Wikipedia is dominated by radical leftwing editors and administrators who ensure that politically controversial articles, especially those on race-related topics, are propaganda, by systematically violating Wikipedia’s “neutral point of view” (WP:NPOV) policy. The article contends that the editors and administrators censor true statements, and replace them with false ones, ban honest, non-leftwing editors who have sought to work on the articles, and load articles on people, organizations, and movements whom they oppose with baseless or dubious negative, and even libelous claims, and remove any neutral or positive statements, in violation of Wikipedia’s policy forbidding “undue weight” (WP: WEIGHT). Thus do such articles contain only criticisms. The article also charges that the editors and administrators in question often clearly have no knowledge at all of the articles’ subjects, and further charges that the Wikipedia article on American Renaissance was written by people who have never read a single issue of the magazine, and who relied on tendentious accounts by journalists who had read only one or two issues.[7]


Notable contributors and speakers

See also


Notes

  1. ^ The magazine's own page claims "Race and racial conflict are at the heart of the most serious challenges the Western World faces in the 21st century."[1]
  2. ^ Jared Taylor, a racist in the guise of 'expert'
  3. ^ American Renaissance
  4. '^ Jared Taylor, a racist in the guise of 'expert
  5. ^ Weird Science
  6. ^ American Renaissance News: Jews and American Renaissance
  7. ^ “Wikipedia on Race,” American Renaissance, July 2008.

Further reading

  • "A Convocation of Bigots: The 1998 American Renaissance Conference", The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (21): 120–124, Autumn, 1998, retrieved 2008-05-22 {{citation}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: date and year (link). (JSTOR subscription required for online access.)
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