Roger Pearson (anthropologist), Date of Birth
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About Roger Pearson (anthropologist)
- Roger Pearson (born 21 August 1927 in London) is a British anthropologist, soldier, businessman, eugenics advocate, political organiser for the extreme right, and publisher of political and academic journals.
- He has been on the faculty of the Queens College, Charlotte, the University of Southern Mississippi, and Montana Tech, and is now retired.
- It has been noted that Pearson has been surprisingly successful in combining a career in academia with political activities on the far right.
- He 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 anti-Semitic literature.Pearson's anthropological work is based in an evolutionary and racialist approach, of the kind that was common in anthropology in the early 20th century, based on the idea that the progress of humankind depends on making sure that "favorable" genes are segregated out from amongst "unfavorable" "genetic formulae".
- He has consistently advocated that the human species consists of biologically distinct races which he defines as "rival breeding populations", some of which are intrinsically better fit than others, and which compete against each other in a struggle for survival, but which all too frequently intermingle to the detriment of the superior races.
- He 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, through "humane and benevolent eugenics policies".Pearson also published two popular textbooks in anthropology, but his anthropological views on the race question have been widely rejected as unsupported by contemporary anthropology.
- Consequently, Pearson faced difficulties in publishing his work.
- For this reason he founded several journals dedicated to publicizing research that was otherwise excluded from mainstream journals: Journal of Social, Political, and Economic Studies as well as Journal of Indo-European Studies.
- In 1978 he took over the editorship of the journal Mankind Quarterly founded by Robert Gayre and Henry Garrett, widely considered a eugenicist journal.
- Most of Pearson's publishing ventures have been managed through the Institute for the Study of Man, and the Pioneer Fund, with which Pearson is closely associated, having received $568,000 in the period from 1981-1991.Pearson's strict stance against racial and political egalitarianism also manifested in a consistent opposition to Marxism and socialism.
- In the 1980s, he was a political organizer for the American far-right; he established the Council for American Affairs and was the American representative in the World Anti-Communist League.
- Pearson was World Chairman of the WACL, and in that capacity collaborated closely with the U.S.
- government during the cold war, and he collaborated with many anti-communist groups in the organisation, including followers of Reverend Moon and former German Nazis.
- On his website, Pearson disputes some of the claims in the literature about him, rejecting specific accusations of race-hate, of anti-semitism, of arguing in favor of genocide, involuntary eugenics, forced repatriation of legal immigrants, subjugation or exploitation by one group of another, extreme or fascist politics—including National Socialism or any totalitarian system—as well as denying accusations of impropriety.
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