The Culture of Racism in America
America's history of racism. Did it influence Nazi Germany?
James Q Whitman the Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale Law
School has written a timely book about American racism and its influence on Adolf Hitler, the Nazi
party, and the Nuremberg laws.
The author uses historical facts and documentation to illustrate the connection between the
American extermination of Native Americans and the Jim Crow models, namely the guiding light
for Hitler and his Nazi Germany that led to the extermination of millions of Jews, gypsies, and
homosexuals.
.The book links American race laws to the shaping of Nazi policies in Germany.1