Black Belt Around the World at the High Noon of Colonialism
Richmond, Virginia: Published by the author, ©1963. First Edition. The last book written and self-published by the lifelong white supremacist and one of the twentieth century’s most dedicated advocates for black repatriation. In Black Belt Around the World at the High Noon of Colonialism, Cox provides a history of his family, his early life, and the circumstances preceding his world travels. Inspired by Dr. Frederick Starr’s journey through the Belgian Congo (Starr was Cox’s professor at the Univ. of Chicago), Cox decided to make “a first hand study of the Negro under other governments” (p. 61), which eventually took him all over Africa, New Zealand, Australia, East Asia, and South American. As summarized by scholar Jason Ward, in Black Belt, Cox “described the encounters that had inspired his crusade for racial separation. He remembered his admiration for the racial pride of German colonists, his horror at reports of blacks raping white women in South Africa, and his revelation that an innate cultural genius accounted for worldwide white supremacy” (Ward, “‘A Richmond Institution’: Earnest Sevier Cox, Racial Propaganda, and White Resistance to Civil Rights Movement,” p. 284).
Cox returned to the U.S. in 1915 a committed racial nationalist and spent the rest of his life promoting white supremacy and working alongside black nationalists, such as Marcus Garvey, to repatriate American blacks back to Africa. He self-published many books and pamphlets from his home in Richmond, VA, under his White America Society imprint, such as White America (1923), Let My People Go (1925), The South’s Part in Mongrelizing the Nation (1926), Lincoln’s Negro Policy (1938), Teutonic Unity (1951), Unending Hate (1955), etc.
Green cloth boards (6 ¼” x 9 ¼”) stamped in gilt, 340 p. Photographic plates of Cox’s family and his travels; folding map in rear: Map of the World showing the Steamship Services of the North German Lloyd, Bremen. Some rubbing to cloth; faint foxing to rear endpaper and map verso. An about Near Fine copy. Item #8668
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