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American Renaissance (AR) is a monthly magazine published by the New Century Foundation. It describes itself as a "literate, undeceived journal of race, immigration, and the decline of civility". The magazine and foundation were created by Jared Taylor and the first issue was published in November 1990.

American Renaissance asserts that Americans of European heritage are entitled to promote their common interests just as other ethnic groups in society routinely do. A main theme is to demonstrate the "demographic threat" that increasing non-white minorities pose to American society, and to other European-derived nations. It is asserted that America's major social problems are due to racial strife and to a weakening of the country's "white racial heritage" by increased immigration to the US of non-whites.

The magazine and foundation promotes academic research and arguments asserting that differences in educational outcomes and per capita income between racial populations can be attributed to differences in intelligence between races. Though such views have led to accusations of racism, American Renaissance and its supporters claim to advocate separation for Caucasians from non-whites rather than 'supremacy' over them, preferring the term "racial-realist" <ref>http://www.chicagoamren.com/aboutar.htm</ref>.

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[edit] Common themes

Among the most common themes and ideas promoted in the magazine are the following:

  • Racial categories have a biological/genetic basis.
  • Racial differences exist and are meaningful as a fundamental aspect of individual and group self-identification.
  • Race is a primary determinant of human intelligence and behavior.
  • Attempts to link genetics of non-white people to differences in educational and economic outcomes.
  • Racial preference/bias is natural and inevitable: people generally/naturally prefer the company (and by extension the racial composition of their nation) of people from the same racial group.
  • Following from the above, given the alleged genetically determined intellectual and moral inferiority of non white people and the natural tendency of racial groups to be biased towards their own kind, white racial preference/bias by and for white people is logical and pragmatic, rather than merely ideological.
  • The argument that organizations such as the Council of Conservative Citizens, British National Party, La Raza, Mecha, and the NAACP are morally equivalent and simply represent expressions of natural racial self-identification resulting from demographic group-interests.
  • Attempts to link immigration non-white people to negative social trends such as a declines in moral behavior, rising rates of criminality, declines in the standard of living and per capita income.
  • Arguments that non-white immigration to First World nations such as the United States should be greatly curtailed.
  • American Renaissance alleges that there is a strong media bias regarding issues of race and racism, claiming that hate crimes against white people are vastly underreported, whereas similar crimes against minorities receive great attention.

Such arguments are usually supported on a social scientific and genetic basis, but issues of AR have even featured theological arguments, for insistence, denouncing interracial and inter-cultural marriage as, "racial suicide", an "unequal yoking", asserting that such unions "go against the very community which marriage is designed to establish."<ref>http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05030/450021.stm</ref>

[edit] Bi-Annual conferences

The organization holds bi-annual conferences, which attract Neo-Nazis, “white nationalists" and "white separatists," Ku Klux Klansmen, holocaust deniers, and eugenicists, as well as numerous protestors.<ref>http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05030/450021.stm</ref>

Contributors to the magazine and conferences include Stephen Webster, Michael Levin, Nick Griffin, Bruno Gollnisch, J. Philippe Rushton, Ian Jobling, Glenn Spencer, and Sam Dickson. The late Samuel Francis was also a regular contributor and speaker at the conferences.

[edit] Criticism

Critics claim that while the magazine attempts to give the impression that it is a well-researched, carefully thought out assessment of differences between races, contributors to the magazine use pseudo-science to support their essentially white-supremacist ideology; citing facts and statistics derived from reputable sources, but taken out of context, extrapolating or exaggerating conclusions that the data does not bear out, and/or that they emphasize data that supports their racist positions while ignoring or downplaying contrary evidence. Associations between the American Renaissance and the New Century Foundation and far right-wing, neo-fascism and racist organizations and individuals such as the Council of Conservative Citizens, the Pioneer Fund, the British National Party, Don Black, and David Duke, among others have been cited as evidence that the magazine's promotion of itself as “literate and intelligent” is merely a veneer for a much more crude and ultimately malevolent political agenda. <ref>http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/amren.asp?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&xpicked=3&item=amren</ref> <ref>http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05023/446341.stm</ref>

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