Acclaimed Author, Professor of American Studies & Cultural Historian, Philip Kadish

An evening with author, Philip Kadish: The Great White Hoax:

Two Centuries of Selling Racism in America

Join Philip Kadish—professor of American Studies at Pace University and author of The Great White Hoax—for an illuminating evening that exposes a centuries-old playbook built on lies, fear, and manipulation. Drawing on his scholarship in American literature, culture, and the impact of scientific racism on U.S. society, Kadish reveals how white supremacist hoaxes have been deliberately engineered to inflame public opinion, distort truth, and secure political power.

With gripping clarity, Kadish takes audiences from slavery-era pseudoscience that falsely claimed white superiority, to Civil War smear campaigns that weaponized fabricated pamphlets against Abraham Lincoln. He then traces how these tactics resurfaced in D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation, Henry Ford’s antisemitic adaptation of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and in the eugenics movement that influenced Nazi ideology, and George Wallace’s brazen race-baiting politics—forming a chilling continuum that still shapes our world today.

Provocative, unsettling, and urgently relevant, The Great White Hoax is not just history—it’s a vital lens for understanding the present.

Unmask the lies. Trace their history. Understand their power today.

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