Anglo-Saxon race

If Handlin seems to be assuming that the non-Anglo-Saxon races were not really racially distinct (which indeed they had been, by consensus),... 

The history of racial classification over time is a second such site entire races have disappeared from view, from public discussion, and from modern memory, though their flesh-and-blood members still walk the earth. What has become of the nineteenth century s Celts and Slavs, for instance Its Hebrews, Iberics, Mediterraneans, Teutons, and Anglo-Saxons This book tells the story of how these races—these public fictions—rose and fell in American social consciousness, and how the twentieth century s Caucasians emerged to take their place. 

Or again, even blood is dubious genealogical statistics generated by a race purity law prove that more than fifty million Anglo-Saxons in fact have some measure of black blood.73 It is this manufactured, arbitrary, mistaken quality of race, in fact, that gives such bite to Schuyler s observations on its primacy as an organizer of the nation s political and social life. 

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