The Construction of a White Destiny

Intellectual and Popular Origins to White Superiority

I.          Introduction:  "A chosen people with an impeccable ancestry"

II.        Liberty Loving Anglo-Saxons

A.  Origins of the Mythology of the Anglo-Saxon

1.  Free Church and Just Laws

2.  Encountering "Others"

B.  The Enlightenment vs. the Romantic Movement

III.       Racial Science

A.  Superior and Inferior Races

B.  Religion as an Obstacle

C.  Polygenesis

D.  Phrenology

IV.       American Anglo Saxonism

A.  A Long and Glorious Heritage

B.  American Providence