| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.3

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Book Review

The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund. By William H. Tucker. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2002. xii, 286 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-252-02762-0.)

Wickliffe Preston Draper was an upper-crust, Harvard-educated northeasterner who in 1923 had been made rich by inheritance. He busied himself with travel, big game hunting, and an increasing absorption with eugenics, including its apprehensions that the power and purity of the nation's white Anglo-Saxon Protestant majority was being undermined by the stirrings for equal rights from African Americans and recent immigrants. Draper provided funds for the immigration restriction movement, eugenic research projects, and a campaign to repatriate blacks back to Africa. In 1937 he established the Pioneer Fund, a nonprofit agency with a double purpose: to help educate children of exceptional value, particularly descendants of "predominantly white persons" in the original thirteen colonies, and to support and disseminate the results of research in heredity, eugenics, and "race betterment" in the United States (pp. 6–7).

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