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American Renaissance (abbreviated AR or AmRen) is a monthly racialist magazine published by the New Century Foundation. The magazine's founder Jared Taylor has been called a white separatist.

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." 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. Such views have led to accusations of racism and white supremacy.

American Renaissance and the New Century Foundation are alleged to have had links with far right, neo-fascist and racist organizations and individuals such as: the Council of Conservative Citizens, the Pioneer Fund, the British National Party, Don Black and David Duke. 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). Taylor has written that the magazine welcomes Jews as writers and conference speakers. 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)

Critics claim that the magazine uses pseudoscience to give the impression that it provides researched, thought-out assessments of differences between races. The critics say contributors to the magazine sometimes cite facts and statistics derived from reputable sources, but taken out of context. They say the magazine's writers extrapolate or exaggerate conclusions that the data does not bear out, or that they emphasize data that supports their own positions while downplaying or simply ignoring contrary evidence.

Notable contributors and speakers

• Lawrence Auster
• Michael Berman
• Jon Entine
• Guillaume Faye
• Samuel Francis
• Paul Fromm
• Bruno Gollnisch
• Paul Gottfried
• Nick Griffin
• Michael Hart
• Ian Jobling
• Joel T. LeFevre
• Michael Levin
• Richard McCulloch
• Roger McGrath
• Ashley Mote
• Fred Reed
• J. Philippe Rushton
• Mayer Schiller
• Joseph Sobran
• Jared Taylor
• Michael Walker
• Robert Weissberg

See also

• Antisemitism
• Biological determinism
• Eugenics
• Kevin B. MacDonald
• Paleoconservatism
• Pioneer Fund
• Racial realism
• Right-wing politics
• Scientific racism
• White nationalism

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."
2. Racial Renaissance Meeting draws racists, pseudo-intellectuals by Southern Poverty Law Center
3. Jared Taylor, a racist in the guise of 'expert'
4. American Renaissance
5. Jared Taylor, a racist in the guise of 'expert'
6. Weird Science
7. American Renaissance News: Jews and American Renaissance

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.)

External links

• Official website
• "Weird Science" January 30, 2005 by Dennis Roddy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Critical account of an AmRen conference.
• Anti-Defamation League file on American Renaissance
• "Jared Taylor, a racist in the guise of 'expert'", Sunday, January 23, 2005, by Dennis Roddy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Details connections between racist organizations and individuals such as the Council of Conservative Citizens, the British National Party, Don Black, and David Duke.
• Searchlight report on the 2006 American Renaissance conference
• Article summarizing many of the views of American Renaissance from an AmRen conference.

• Publications established in 1990
• American political magazines
• Paleoconservatism
• Politics and race
• White supremacy