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Ralph Waldo Emerson towers over the American Renaissance but seldom as the philosopher-king of American white-race theory. In her presidential address to the 2008 Organization of American Historians convention, Nell Irvin Painter argues that though both white masculine gender panic and spread-eagle Anglo-Saxonism are traditionally situated at the turn of the twentieth century, Emerson laid out those ideas in the 1850s in an influential treatise and oft-repeated lectures. He portrayed the American as Saxon and separated the genealogy of the American Saxon from that of the Celt. Emerson elevated the Saxons and removed the Celts from the identity of the American, making it clear that "Saxon" (or, later, "Anglo-Saxon") was not a synonym for white, even though the historiographical literature often makes that equation.

In the first decades of the nineteenth century, powerful groups emerged in the United States to champion the removal of both Native Americans and free blacks. While historians usually see such groups as barometers of a rising racism in the United States, . . .

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