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Scientists for Segregation: Ernest van den Haag

October 8, 2026 · 47 min

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A closer look at one of the men on the Pioneer Fund's team of scientists for segregation reveals that he wasn't a scientist at all.


Sources & Further Reading:

Tucker, William (2002). The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and The Pioneer Fund. University of Illinois Press.

Jackson, John P. Jr (2005). Science for Segregation: Race, Law, and the Case Against Brown v. Board of Education. New York University Press.

Sussman, Robert Wald (2014). The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea. Harvard University Press.

Van den Haag, Ernest (1969). The Jewish Mystique. Stein and Day.

Ernest van den Haag, Academic Freedom and Tenure, 15 Pace L. Rev. 5 (1994)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.58948/2331-3528.1354
Available at: https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/plr/vol15/iss1/2

Chianese, Gloria (2006). Fascismo e lavoro a Napoli: Sindacato corporativo e antifascismo popolare (1930-1943).

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/538438703?objectPage=3

https://ilmanifesto.it/melamerson-una-coppia-in-fuga-a-vietri

https://oll.libertyfund.org/pages/the-intellectual-portrait-series-a-conversation-with-ernest-van-den-haag

https://web.archive.org/web/20031010001427/http://home.comcast.net/~neoeugenics/pioneer.htm

https://holidaycoast.it/en/Vietri-sul-Mare-and-Salerno%3A-highlights-on-designer-ceramics-with-Europe/

https://www.ilvescovado.it/it/storia-e-storie-19/verso-il-25-aprile-l-antifascismo-vietrese-105190/article

https://www.nytimes.com/1969/11/23/archives/the-jewish-mystique-by-ernest-van-den-haag-252-pp-new-york-stein.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/27/nyregion/e-van-den-haag-87-educator-and-backer-of-death-penalty.html

https://chroniclesmagazine.org/cultural-revolutions/ernest-van-den-haag-r-i-p/

https://vdare.com/articles/in-memoriam-ernest-van-den-haag

https://kirkcenter.org/essays/ernest-van-den-haag-19142002/

https://sousamendesfoundation.org/family/melamerson

https://archives.albany.edu/description/catalog/apap135

https://files.supersite.aruba.it/media/31058_cfca3f8a5fa8002f9ebf82670aba47c97078fb72.pdf

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