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Searching for Atlantis and the Lost White Race

5/25/2016

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Last year writer Mark Adams published Meet Me in Atlantis, his account of meeting and listening to some of the people who devote their lives to looking for the lost continent of Atlantis. My review is here. That book is now being released in paperback, so Adams is once again on a media tour doing publicity for the book. In a recent interview with Wired magazine’s Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast Adams revealed that one of the results of writing a book even vaguely connected to fringe history is a barrage of invitations to appear on Ancient Aliens. Adams told Wired that despite monthly invitations, he’s not biting.
I’m not going on that show if you give me a million dollars. You’re going to take whatever, you know, words come out of my mouth and make them fit whatever, you know, paradigm you’re pushing in a particular week. And a lot of these people, these experts, have been unpleasantly surprised by someone calling them at 10 o’clock at night and saying, “Did you know that you’re on the Discovery Channel right now in a special called Atlantis: Finally Found or something like that? So, if you’re an Atlantis expert, be careful.
Adams is referring to the practice of TV producers, notably working for the Discovery Networks, to interview experts under the pretense of producing science programs only to repurpose the interviews for pseudoscience after getting the experts to sign a vaguely worded release. This is different from Ancient Aliens, which makes no bones about what they intend to do with interviews they conduct.
 
There’s also that matter that Adams is a bit selective about his outrage. He doesn’t want to compromise his credibility on Ancient Aliens but was happy to write for Ancient Origins, a fringe website that endorses various fringe history claims, including the reality of Atlantis! The difference seems to be the difference in the chance that a colleague or publisher might stumble across it.
 
In the interview, Adams claims that academics dislike Atlantis because it implies the existence of a superior race and goes against currently fashionable multiculturalism. He says that scholars won’t touch the subject for fear of compromising their seriousness and their careers and that even his publisher, Penguin, was wary of the subject until he explained that he was not actually looking for Atlantis. (Seriously? Penguin Random House owns Crown, Graham Hancock’s longtime, though not current, publisher, and Graham Hancock writes about Atlantis as though it were real.) For the paperback release, Penguin wanted to disassociate Adams from Atlantis believers, he said. The original subtitle, “My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City,” has now been changed to “Across Three Continents in Search of the Legendary Sunken City” because too many potential readers mistook his book for another pseudoscientific entry in the Atlantis genre. Does that mean that the potential audience was too limited for a mainstream release? Or that only the “wrong” kind of readers were buying the book?
 
From the opposing angle, he adds that many Atlantis researchers adopted lost civilization beliefs as a halfway point between mainstream science and their entry point into fringe studies, ancient astronauts.
 
He also discusses some of the ways fringe history has shaped the public’s misunderstanding of Plato’s Atlantis, notably as a high-tech spiritual paradise. Fringe history, and he notes, also contributed to the impression that Atlantis was home to a white master race, a popular conception made famous by Ignatius Donnelly and repeated as recently as Graham Hancock’s Magicians of the Gods.
 
That’s why I was intrigued to read about a new book about the 600-year quest to find lost white races around the world. According to a review in Alternet, Hillyer College professor Michael F. Robinson’s new book The Lost White Tribe (Oxford, 2016) chronicles European efforts to find more white people everywhere on the Earth’s surface, from medieval efforts to locate the kingdom of Prester John to far-flung reports about how light skin or even albinism were signs of diluted Aryan blood.  He traces the desire to find white people to the usual sources: racism, ethnocentrism, and the Biblical account of the dispersal of the races after the Flood.
 
The book is, at its core, an examination of the nineteenth century Hamitic Hypothesis, which was a fringe reading of the Bible that preferred to see all three of Noah’s sons as “white” and therefore imagined that Ham’s descendants were a fallen white master race that once ruled the lesser races. Therefore, black and brown peoples could be ranked based on the amount of “Hamitic” or “white” blood they possessed, as revealed through measurements of their skulls and facial features. In adopting this theory, Robinson writers, Europeans “were not settling, but resettling, lands that had been conquered by fair-skinned invaders centuries before.”
 
Gee, where have we heard that recently? Oh, right: America Unearthed and the Scott Wolter-Hutton Pulitzer-Frank Joseph vision of a lost white pre-Columbian America. Robinson’s book covers similar claims down to the controversy over Kennewick Man, but sadly it leaves out the revival of Victorian-era white nationalist historiography and its popularized echoes in recent fringe history, especially on cable television.
 
Hundreds of cases of explorers interpreting native bodies as actually “white” or “Aryan” litter the accounts of exploration from 1492 to 1945, and European efforts to find blood ties to the lands they conquered weren’t confined only to political and social claims. They also influenced popular culture. “Of the hundreds of adventure novels and short stories published in Britain between 1880 and 1920, eighty percent of them concerned the discovery of white or proto-white tribes,” Robinson writes in Lost White Tribe.
 
I can’t imagine that’s true, and Alternet says that Robinson doesn’t explain how he came up with the number. I checked the preview available in Google Books, and indeed there is no footnote for the claim. Robinson’s argument seems to be that H. Ryder Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines was so influential that the raft of imitators that followed overwhelmed the adventure genre with tales of lost white races. I have asked Prof. Robinson, by email, for clarification, and I will let you know if he responds.

Update: Prof. Robinson responded with his source, which is Carter Hanson's "Lost Among White Others: Late-Victorian Lost Race Novels for Boys," 19th Century Contexts, 23:4 (2002), pp. 497-527. Hanson examined 41 explicitly lost race tales aimed at a juvenile male audience and found that 32 made the lost race white. This is not quite the same as all British Victorian adventure fiction, which clarifies why my antennae perked up at the claim. Lost race novels for boys is a small subset of all adventure fiction.
20 Comments
E.P. Grondine
5/25/2016 01:49:47 pm

you got it, Jason.

And this "lost white race" dung heap provides sources for most of the nu-age crap being promoted today.

In classical marxist analysis, if today's believers in this shit do not amount o anything in real life, they take comfort in believing themselves to be the bearers of special knowledge.

They take comfort in that, and that they are white.

As facts and logic play no role in these belief systems.it is fairly useless to confront them on any one point, as these are coherent delusional frameworks, they will simply move on to another point.

It is all a lot of fun, until the bodies start piling up.

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Scott Hamilton
5/25/2016 02:23:10 pm

That book sounds interesting. I think I'll pick it up.

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Eric Plumrose
5/25/2016 03:40:15 pm

Jason, in paragraphs seven and eleven you refer to Robinson as 'Robertson'. In paragraph seven also, 'Robinson writers' should be 'Robinson writes'.

Another good heads up, anyhow.

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Jason Colavito link
5/25/2016 03:56:16 pm

Thanks for pointing that out. I'm more tired than I thought! I didn't get much sleep last night since the city decided to do street cleaning at 3 AM, and I could fall back to sleep after getting jarred awake.

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Bob Jase
5/25/2016 06:25:20 pm

The Lost White Race - is that why so many horror story lost tribes are described as albinos?

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Only Me
5/25/2016 06:47:06 pm

Mark Adams made some good points.

Will you be reviewing Robinson's book if you can get it? It definitely sounds fascinating.

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Time Machine
5/25/2016 09:20:06 pm

Countries in Africa have seriously tried to be as good and as advanced as White Countries but they are just not capable, They do not have the brains or knowhow.

It is not "racist" that White People are more advanced.
It is FACTUAL.

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Time Machine
5/25/2016 09:22:53 pm

Ian Smith ran a civilised country in Rhodesia.
When he was deposed in the name of eliminating "racism" the country called Zimbabwe it became just another backward black African country.

Time Machine
5/25/2016 09:30:38 pm

One thing - Africa knows that homosexuality is a biological imbalance.

Only Me
5/25/2016 11:44:56 pm

This is not the Stormfront website. I advise consulting the great and powerful Google for directions to get there.

David Bradbury
5/26/2016 08:29:50 am

"White Countries" capitalised in mid-sentence
"White People" capitalised in mid-sentence

Not the best way to sell yourself as an unbiased commentator.

Fritz
6/1/2016 04:08:49 am

You site as evidence to support your assertions the decline of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe from where it was up until the early 1980s to where it is today. What I take issue with is that while it is true that Rhodesia was governed by people of white European ancestry prior to full independence, and is now governed by native black Africans (actually one native black Aftrican) that is not the reason for it's decline. The reason for the decline of Zimbabwe is because it has been ruled by one man, Robert Mugabe, for 35 years according to his own peculiar mix of Marxist-Leninism, and cronyism, which has destroyed agricultural production, and tanked whatever economy was there prior to independence. You can witness much the same phenomenon going on in Venezuela, which is populated, and governed by, primarily with people of Spanish and native American ancestry, so clearly race is not the issue here. On the other hand would you state that Japan, or Taiwan, or South Korea are backward or lacking in technological or social advancement?

Graffitibird
5/25/2016 11:38:50 pm

Seriously, Time Machine?

And it couldn't have anything to do with the ravages of colonialism - abject poverty, lack of infrastructure, political turmoil, genocide, insufficient healthcare, famine, drought, AIDS.

Christ on a cracker!

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Clete
5/25/2016 11:48:59 pm

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Time Machine doesn't use his real name...Cyrus K. Know-it-all.

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tm
5/26/2016 08:16:40 am

Yep. Poor Bobo. First he was misogynistic. Now he's homophobic. And racist. Must be a lonely life... I mean, who's left for him to date?. Where does someone like that find romance, solace, acceptance... relief? Hmmm. Have you noticed he's never said one bad word about sheep?

Not the Comte de Saint Germain
5/26/2016 01:57:40 pm

Oh, there are plenty of segments of society where racism and misogyny aren't immediate disqualifiers. The problem is, they don't tend to be the segments of society where you can get away with declaring ad nauseam that religion is a lie.

Shane Sullivan
5/26/2016 02:00:57 pm

Come on, you guys. People who have very obviously suffered severe head injuries and/or oxygen deprivation in the womb deserve our pity, not our censure.

Fritz
6/1/2016 04:16:04 am

Don't discount the pursuit of bad political ideas, such as Marxist-Leninism, radical Islam (Sudan), or political interference by the Soviet Union, and currently Communist China.

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Thorwald C. Franke link
5/27/2016 10:37:14 am

Hopefully many "wrong" readers do read Mark Adams' book, since he clearly destroys any Illusion, rejects pseudo-science, and provides some reasonable ideas how to approach the Atlantis problem from an academic perspective. The same is valid for his ancient-origins article, although I admit that this publication is maybe not the right place for this -- or exactly the right place?

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Thorwald C. Franke link
6/3/2016 06:28:00 pm

Hopefully many "wrong" readers do read Mark Adams' book, since he clearly destroys any anti-scientific illusion, rejects pseudo-science, and provides some reasonable ideas how to approach the Atlantis problem from an academic perspective.

The same is valid for his ancient-origins article, although I admit that this publication is maybe not the right place for this -- or is it maybe exactly the right place?

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