Nordic race

One need look further, at the complex crosscurrents at the confluence of capitalism, republicanism, and the diasporic sensibilities of various racially defined groups themselves. In his satiric novel The Man Who Knew Coolidge (1928), Sinclair Lewis pointed out one of the critical integers in the equation of race and economics. Amid a harangue about the political debates surrounding birth control, Lewis s Nordic Citizen remarks,... 

In assessing the traits and the relative merits of the European races, Grant sketched out a three-tiered scheme of Nordics, Alpines, and Mediterraneans. Predictably, he reserved harsh judgment for American... 

Race politics can only proceed from a racialized sense of the social order—an understanding that this or that race shall work toward this or that aim. In this sense the nation s first naturalization law, in 1790, represented race politics par excellence, as did its drastic revision in 1924. The former proceeded from an assumption that only white persons were truly fit for the rigors of republican self-government the latter, from a revised estimation that, whoops, only Nordics were fit after all. But race politics itself also holds the power to generate a racial order of its own the political mobilization of individuals and groups around a racially posed question can itself exert influence upon existing patterns of race-consciousness and racial salience. 

Many, many years ago there lived in the far North the beautiful and greatly beloved goddess VanadiSy a member of the race of gods from Nordic mythology called the Vanes. The metal vanadium, which is now named after her, was initially called "panchromium by its Mexican discoverer A. M. del Rio (1801) because of the many colors the salts exhibited the exact proof that it was in fact a previously unknown element had to wait until 1830/31 and is due to the Swedish chemists J.J, llerzelius (1779—1848) and N. (.t. Sefstrom (1787-1845), one of his pupils. 

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