Eugenics and Race in the Post-war: The Journal Mankind Quarterly and the Theories of the Far-Right

The aim of this article is to analyze the persistence of eugenics after the end of the Second World War. Using as an object the periodical Mankind Quarterly, founded in 1960 in the United States, we will try to demonstrate how a specific type of eugenics project, centered on the idea of race, spread within the extreme right from the international network, which had participants from different continents and supported numerous ideas, including white supremacy, antiSemitism, anti-communism, neo-Nazism and neo-fascism. We will also try to address how these issues contribute to demonstrating the continuity of eugenics and the concept of race in the post-Second World War period, contradicting the line that has long been predominant within historiography on these two subjects.