Races of immigrants in 1905 (1906)

This map by Howard Benjamin Grose is part of his book. Aliens or Americans?, published in 1906.

In this propagandistic book, Howard B. Grose raises the issue of the large volume of immigration into the United States, mainly from Europe, as being of a breed and religion different from the predominant one in the country. Grose was not against immigration as such, but he was a champion of eradicating all cultural particularities of immigrants, as well as pushing for the conversion of all inhabitants of the United States to Christianity.

This particular map shows the different breeds of Europe (a term from that era, but now completely outdated and without any scientific basis). The author groups them in a very particular way:

  • Slavs, in green: Jews, Poles, Slovaks, Croats, Lithuanians, Ruthenians...
  • Teutonic, in blue: Germans, Scandinavians, English, Finns...
  • Iberian products, in orange: southern Italians, Greeks, Spaniards, Portuguese, Syrians...
  • Celts, in pink: Irish, northern Italians, Scots, French...
  • Mongols, in yellow: Japanese, Koreans, Chinese...
  • Others, in brown: Magyars, Turks...

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