Re-forging America: The Story of Our Nationhood

Written just after the passing of the 1924 Immigration Act, this book by one of America’s most prominent racial thinkers is an in-depth analysis of the racial developments which led to the American Revolution, the Civil War and the mass immigration of the late nineteenth century which disrupted the until-then almost entirely North-Western European colonization of North America.

Delighted that the 1924 law effectively stopped all further mass migration, Stoddard devoted the rest of this work to discussing solutions to what he called the existing “racial dilemmas” facing America, namely the threat of illegal Mexican immigration, the growth in black numbers and unassimilable European immigrants.

"We want above all things to preserve America. But 'America,' as we have already seen, is not a mere geographical expression; it is a nation, whose foundations were laid over three hundred years ago by Anglo-Saxon Nordics, and whose nationhood is due almost exclusively to people of North European stock—not only the old colonists and their descendants but also many millions of North Europeans who have entered the country since colonial times and who have for the most part been thoroughly assimilated. Despite the recent influx of alien elements, therefore, the American people is still predominantly a blend of closely related North European strains, and the fabric of American life is fundamentally their creation."

Although the 1924 act was repealed in the 1960s, this book contains many observations on race and the implications of mass migration which are more applicable than ever before.

Contents

Preface

I. The Foundations Of Old America

II. The Beginning Of National Life

III. The First Forging Of America

IV. The Schism Of The Civil War

V. The Shattering Of Old America

VI. The Alien Flood

VII. On The Road To Ruin

VIII. The Great Awakening

IX. The Closing Of The Gates

X. The Will To National Unity

XI. The Dilemma Of Color

XII. Bi-Racialism: The Key To Social Peace

XIII. The Scope Of The Task Before Us

XIV. Re-Forging America

Index