Greetings Everyone!
I hope that all of you will pick up a copy of my
recent book, Horror as Racism in H.
P. Lovecraft: White Fragility in the Weird Tales!
In two of his earliest poems, “De Triumpho Naturae”
(1905) and “On the Creation of Niggers”(1912), Lovecraft upends Darwin’s theory
of evolution by proposing a theory of polygenesis, as opposed to genesis.
According to this theory, humans, including the
superior types of humans—white Anglo Saxons—evolved from some type of highly
developed quadruped, complete with pointed ears and a tail, like their distant
cousin the monkey. However, blacks evolved from different, lower
quadrupeds.
Thus, or so the theory holds, since white Anglo-Saxons
and blacks are not descended from the same quadrupeds, they are separate
species, and therefore, Lovecraft concluded, blacks should not be considered as
human beings.
You can read all about Lovecraft’s theory of
polygenesis in Horror as Racism in H. P. Lovecraft, and how Lovecraft uses this
theory to insist that blacks, like monkeys and apes, must be kept separate from
humans—that they represent, in fact, a threat to the purity of the white
race.
JLS
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/horror-as-racism-in-h-p-lovecraft-9798765107690/
