"Crosscurrents: Registers of
Nordicism, Community, and Culture in Jewett's Country of the Pointed Firs." Yale Journal of Criticism 10.2 (1997): 355-70.
(236) His strident Nordicism echoed many of the themes regularly sounded in the racial politics of Harry Laughlin and Madison Grant.
Even as he was disputing Draper's methods, Osborn was promising to introduce him to Lindbergh, a man who had also voiced his concerns about the destruction of the "White race" through its "dilution by foreign races." (470) On one hand, Osborn clearly found the overt "Nordicism" and anti-Semitism of Laughlin, Grant, and Draper unacceptable, yet he maintained close contacts with each of them.
What is less obvious is that despite this stereotyping - and it was not restricted to African Americans and Jews - Fitzgerald felt differently about two vicious forms of racism that existed during his lifetime, Nordicism and lynching.
In contrast, he soon was to indicate his opposition to Nordicism, a contemporaneous theory of racial superiority.
When Tom Buchanan talks about "The Rise of the Coloured Empires' by this man Goddard," he is referring to Nordicism. "It's a fine book and everybody ought to read it," he says.