A Race Against Time: Racial Heresies for the 21st Century [Paperback]

George McDaniel (Editor), Jared Taylor (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 12, 2003

What does the future hold for the West? Must our civilization give way before waves of Third-World newcomers? It is increasingly clear that race and civilization cannot be separated, that only the people who created a culture can sustain it. If immigration changes the face of America--and of Europe--nothing else will remain unchanged.

This collection of essays explains why Western man can save himself and his heritage only by returning to a better understanding of race--an understanding now reviled as heresy.

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"A Race Against Time represents a courageous counterassault by serious opponents of 'diversity.' Unlike establishment critics, who are as much a part of the problem as what they cautiously criticize at the edges, the contributors to this collection go to the ultimate sources of our cultural and social crisis. They are not enlarging the received picture of what has gone wrong, but supplying a provocative alternative one."
--Paul Gottfried, author of After Liberalism and Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt

"American Renaissance and the authors who write for it represent a movement that may now seem marginal but has the unstoppable momentum of truth. Our understanding of race and racial policy is finally emerging from the Dark Ages"
--Richard Lynn, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, University of Ulster

"Americans of all races who want the truth about race--without hate, whining, guilt, or cant--will find it in American Renaissance. This collection offers the best informed, most articulate, most serious, and most honest discussion of race this country has seen in decades." --Samuel Francis, Nationally Syndicated Columnist

From the Publisher

A Race Against Time is a collection of articles from American Renaissance, the leading journal of racial-realist thinking. This book represents an unapologetic break with the assumptions and clichés of the civil rights era. The authors believe that when decades of experience do nothing but contradict the assumptions that underlie social policy, those assumptions must be reexamined. America has tried-—as earnestly as a nation can try anything--to build a society on the assumption that race can be made not to matter. It is time to recognize failure.

These authors--Samuel Francis, Jared Taylor, Richard Lynn, Michael Levin, and others--reject today’s racial orthodoxy. They are all fully aware that what they propose in its place is no less than heresy against the state religion. It is a religion few people actually live by, but it still has the power to dictate policy, and to terrify and punish scoffers. At its simplest, their heresy is this: Race is important, and whites have rights and interests *as a race.*

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Product Details

• Paperback: 347 pages
• Publisher: New Century Books (September 12, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0965638324
• ISBN-13: 978-0965638326
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #311,180 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Jared Taylor was born in Japan, where he lived until he was 16 years old. He has a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Yale University and a master's degree in international economics from l'Institut d' Etudes Politiques de Paris.

He has worked as an international lending office for a major New York bank and as a consultant to companies doing business in Japan. For three yeas he was the West Coast Editor of PC (Personal Computing) Magazine, and has published articles and essays in the following publications:

Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Washington Star, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe, National Review, Chronicles.

Since 1994, Jared Taylor has been the president of New Century Foundation, which publishes American Renaissance, a monthly magazine devoted to issues of race and immigration (AmRen.com).

He is the author of the following books:

Shadows of the Rising Sun: A Critical View of the Japanese Miracle, 1983, 336 pp., William Morrow & Co.

Paved With Good Intensions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America, 1992, 416 pp., Carol and Graf (now part of Avalon Publishing).

The Tyranny of the New and Other Essays, 1992, Kinseido Publishers (Tokyo), 89 pp.

White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century, 2011, New Century Books, 344 pp.

Jared Taylor lives with his family in northern Virginia near Washington, DC.

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184 of 200 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What this book is, What this book is not., July 20, 2004

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This review is from: A Race Against Time: Racial Heresies for the 21st Century (Paperback)

One reviewer claims its filled with 'hate' and 'antisemitism' odd, since one of the writers, Michael Levin, is jewish. The reviewer obviously didn't not read the book because he makes wild assertions that it contains passages about 'jews controlling the world' - it does nothing of the kind. Please disregard unsubtaniated claims like this - they are meant to scare you away from the real issues.

There is not an ounce of 'hate' in this book, and intelligent people have come to realize that the people screaming "hate" and "racism" have no other recourse to the arguments presented in this book.

The book is a collection of essays from "American Renaissance" magazine (yes it is a 'controversial' magazine/website/author (Jared Taylor) - covering race relations from a scientific, historical, philosophical and current perspective (which is roughly how the book is divided). I admit I found the ideas and even the idea of American Renaissance itself uncomfortable...but reason kept speaking to me....

The two most important things I walked away with from reading this book are the following::

a. much as liberals detest creationists, when it comes to ideology trumping science - the liberal left are far more guilty. Ignoring the overwhelming scientific data about the difference between races (much of it covered in the book).

b. "diversity" and "multiculturalism" are ONE WAY streets - for whites - every ethnic activist group that demand that Whites be color blind and open their borders, demand ethnic solidarity amongst their own.
Thus a Mexican activist group has no problem demanding both open borders for the US and supporting the militarization and protection of mexico's border from Gutamala.

Think about it - if it's prejudiced for whites to ask the country be more white, why is it 'ok' for say, Hispanics to demand that their be more Hispanics?

Whether you are liberal or conservative, this book will challenge a lot of your assumptions, especially scientific ones - and make you realize that other than inertia and dogma, current views about the races (that there are no basic differences) are as scientific as the flat earth theory.

What comes to mind when i read shrill reactions to this book and other evidence is quote, attributed to Galelio:

" "My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?"
--Letter from Galileo Galilei to Johannes Kepler "

Remember, anytime people are name calling chances are they don't have a reasonable rebuttal.

63 of 65 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wow! I'm NOT Alone!, June 27, 2006

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I think this book states what most thinking people know via everyday observation, but due to this period of PC "thought control" are unfortunately afraid to discuss with each other except in hushed tones behind closed doors. Nature and evolution are neither good nor bad, nor fair, or unfair, they simply "are," and to try and manufacture egalitarian fantasies re the unquestioned inherent intellectual and moral equality of all, is usually transparent to most with eyes, ears, and a functioning brain. European man did not invent Voodoo, or the culture of female genital mutilation," however his/her science and technology landed man on the moon and invented the internet. This is not fiction, but fact. I think this book is very well thought out, well written, and a dire warning re the bleak future of the civilized world, i.e asian/eurocentiric culture, and scientific advancement if we continue on with our social fantasies and tolerance for outright lies by the academic and political powers that be. In all of nature, there are species/races of creatures that excel and those that stagnate and die, and those that are parasitic - only God/Creator knows why. This book humbly attempts to touch on some of these fundamental questions without hate, but in a neutral and dispassionate manner. I rated it four instead of five stars b/c I was a bit disappointed with the authors lack of regard for the benefits of Buddhist thought over straight sole preference for Christianity. But buy it and read with an "OPEN" mind, and maybe you will realize that you're not alone either!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Reveals The Truth about Racial Differences, November 13, 2005

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I first read the Bell Curve (cover to cover), which finally opened my eyes to the reality of race and genetic differences that have serious (ignored) social implications. I then read A Race Against Time, which was just as enlightening. In one text you get a variety of views and perspectives on race and the challenges faced by white america. It is a must read to bring you up to speed on the facts of race. I'm now reading Race, Evolution and Behavior by J. Philippe Rushton. This book is your best investment in reading the facts about race and impacts.