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Roger Pearson (anthropologist)

For the literary scholar, see Roger Pearson (literary scholar).

Roger Pearson
Pearson in 1946
Born (1927-08-21) 21 August 1927 (age 96)
London, United Kingdom
OccupationAnthropologist

Roger Pearson (born 21 August 1927) is a British anthropologist, eugenicist, white supremacist, political organiser for the extreme right, and publisher of political and academic journals.

Pearson was a part of the faculty of the Queens University of Charlotte, the University of Southern Mississippi, and Montana Tech, before his retirement. It has been noted that Pearson was surprisingly successful in combining a career in academia with political activities on the far right.[1]

Pearson served in the British Army after World War II, and was a businessman in South Asia. In the late 1950s, he founded the Northern League. In the 1960s, he established himself in the United States for a while working together with Willis Carto publishing white supremacist and antisemitic literature.[2] He was a regular contributor to The Heritage Foundation's periodicals.[3]

Pearson's anthropological work was based in the eugenic belief that "favourable" genes can be identified and segregated from "unfavourable" ones. He advocated a belief in biological racialism, and claimed that human races can be ranked. Pearson argues that the future of the human species depends on political and scientific steps to replace the "genetic formulae" and populations that he considers to be inferior with ones he considers to be superior.[4][5][6][7]

Pearson also published two popular textbooks in anthropology, but his anthropological views on race have been widely rejected as unsupported by contemporary anthropology. In 1976 he found the Journal of Social, Political and Economic Studies, which has been identified as one of two international journals which regularly publishes articles pertaining to race and intelligence with the goal of supporting the idea that white people are inherently superior (the other such journal being Mankind Quarterly).[8]

In 1978, he took over the editorship of Mankind Quarterly founded by Robert Gayre and Henry Garrett, widely considered a scientific racist journal. Most of Pearson's publishing ventures were managed through the Institute for the Study of Man, and the Pioneer Fund, with which Pearson was closely associated, having received $568,000 in the period from 1981 to 1991.[9][10][11]

Pearson's opposition to egalitarianism extended to Marxism and socialism. In the 1980s, he was a political organizer for the American far-right; he established the Council for American Affairs in the 1970s and was the American representative in the World Anti-Communist League during the second half of the 1970s. As world chairman of the WACL, he worked with the U.S. government during the Cold War, and collaborated with many anti-communist groups in the organisation, including the Unification Church and former German Nazis.[12][13]

  1. ^ "Pearson has succeeded in combining such right-wing politics with a conventional academic career." – Kühl, Stefan (2001). The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism. Oxford University Press, p. 4.
  2. ^ Winston, A. S. (1996). The context of correctness: A comment on Rushton. Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless, 5(2), 231-250.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference carto was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Kohn, M. (1995). The race gallery: The return of racial science. London: Jonathan Cape. pp. 52-54
  5. ^ Tucker, W. H. (2002). Closer Look at the Pioneer Fund: Response to Rushton, A. Alb. L. Rev., 66, 1145.
  6. ^ Tucker, W. H. (2003). The Leading Academic Racists of the Twentieth Century. Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, 90-95.
  7. ^ Shared Eugenic Visions: Raymond B. Cattell and Roger Pearson. Andrew S. Winston, University of Guelph "ISAR - Shared Eugenic Visions: Raymond B. Cattell and Roger Pearson". Archived from the original on 18 August 2015. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
  8. ^ Stavenhagen, Rodolfo (14 December 2012). Pioneer on Indigenous Rights. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 90. ISBN 9783642341502.
  9. ^ ""ROGER PEARSON" ISAR". Archived from the original on 29 December 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
  10. ^ Rosenthal, S. J. (1995). The Pioneer Fund Financier of Fascist Research. American Behavioral Scientist, 39(1), 44-61.
  11. ^ Winston, A. S. (1998). Science in the service of the far right: Henry E. Garrett, the IAAEE, and the Liberty Lobby. Journal of Social Issues, 54(1), 179-210.
  12. ^ Kuhl, S. (1994). The Nazi connection: eugenics, American racism, and German national socialism. Oxford University Press.
  13. ^ Jackson, J. P. (2006). Argumentum ad hominem in the science of race. Argumentation and Advocacy, 43(1), 14.

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