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Essential Writings on Race
Samuel Francis was the most incisive thinker of our time on the politics of race. Here, in one volume, are his most thoughtful essays on this crucial subject. Lovingly edited and introduced by Jared Taylor, Essential Writings on Race is one of the central texts of American race-realist thought.
119 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2007
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March 14, 2021
It’s a shame I haven’t read any of Francis’ work until now. He is clearly a genius of unrivaled honesty in his field.
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May 26, 2019This is (I hope obviously) an "In the Enemy Camp"-style reading, and since I'm not really the target audience, it's probably inappropriate to assign it a star rating. However, for those who, like me, are interested in raiding the far right for insights - or just to keep tabs on their political opponents - I should say that these essays are much less interesting than "Leviathan and Its Enemies;" while the other was cynical, descriptive, and surprising, these are polemical, tendentious, and boilerplate. They are intended to rile up a fascist audience, and mostly either with outrages that would make Everyday Feminism or the like blush at its triviality (protests against a statue of Spanish missionaries, for instance) or anyone with the faintest education laugh ("only whites have produced literature that admits of psychological complexity.") Indeed, probably the most interesting thing is that there's such a gap between the esoteric, unpublished "Leviathan" (which treats racial concepts as cynically as any other ideological tool of group mobilization) and these exoteric writings (which treat the matter very credulously and precisely so for the purpose of group mobilization.)
To balance out these unkind remarks I should perhaps finish by saying that Francis remains a clear and entertaining prose stylist, even when the content is dishonest or trivial.
To balance out these unkind remarks I should perhaps finish by saying that Francis remains a clear and entertaining prose stylist, even when the content is dishonest or trivial.
April 4, 2025
Why is it that whites are the only race that is forbidden to be animated by pride in their heritage? Why is it taboo for whites to define themselves in racial terms when every other race is allowed a racial consciousness?
“Race, as much as sex, is part of human nature and the human condition...it can no more be expelled or denied or excluded than any other important fact or force of nature.”
Why are the symbols, holidays, statues, and heroes that are fundamental to our identity and heritage being targeted for destruction?
“The explicit goal is to destroy white civilization by doing away with the symbols and institutions of the collective consciousness that defines the race and is the foundation of the culture...
Instead of invoking a suicidal liberalism and regurgitating the very universalism that has subverted our identity and our sense of solidarity, what we as whites must do is reassert our identity and our solidarity, and we must do so in explicitly racial terms through the articulation of a racial consciousness as whites. The reassertion of our solidarity must be expressed in racial terms for two major reasons. In the first place, the attack upon us defines itself in racial terms and seeks through the delegitimization of race for whites and the legitimization of race for non-whites the dispersion and destruction of the foundations of our solidarity while at the same time consolidating non-white cohesiveness against whites...
Secondly, we need to assert a specifically racial identity because race is real — biological forces, including those that determine race, are important for social, cultural, and historical events...”
In these essays, Sam Francis articulates a defense of white racial consciousness that is underpinned by the fate of Western civilization itself. The profound gravity of the demographic and civilizational crisis facing the West due to mass immigration and the seething anti-white dogma that has captured the state apparatus is laid bare. This is not a work of racial hatred, but of race realism.
“Race, as much as sex, is part of human nature and the human condition...it can no more be expelled or denied or excluded than any other important fact or force of nature.”
Why are the symbols, holidays, statues, and heroes that are fundamental to our identity and heritage being targeted for destruction?
“The explicit goal is to destroy white civilization by doing away with the symbols and institutions of the collective consciousness that defines the race and is the foundation of the culture...
Instead of invoking a suicidal liberalism and regurgitating the very universalism that has subverted our identity and our sense of solidarity, what we as whites must do is reassert our identity and our solidarity, and we must do so in explicitly racial terms through the articulation of a racial consciousness as whites. The reassertion of our solidarity must be expressed in racial terms for two major reasons. In the first place, the attack upon us defines itself in racial terms and seeks through the delegitimization of race for whites and the legitimization of race for non-whites the dispersion and destruction of the foundations of our solidarity while at the same time consolidating non-white cohesiveness against whites...
Secondly, we need to assert a specifically racial identity because race is real — biological forces, including those that determine race, are important for social, cultural, and historical events...”
In these essays, Sam Francis articulates a defense of white racial consciousness that is underpinned by the fate of Western civilization itself. The profound gravity of the demographic and civilizational crisis facing the West due to mass immigration and the seething anti-white dogma that has captured the state apparatus is laid bare. This is not a work of racial hatred, but of race realism.
July 18, 2025
May not be popular today, but it just maybe true!
It just may open your eyes as to how one sided our society has become. It kind of explains the feeling that this is no longer the world that I would choose to live in. And that’s not just in reference to race but our whole tolerance of what is OK!
It just may open your eyes as to how one sided our society has become. It kind of explains the feeling that this is no longer the world that I would choose to live in. And that’s not just in reference to race but our whole tolerance of what is OK!
September 15, 2024
A collection of heterodox essays.
The essays co er A wide array of topics around a central theme. For open minds only. Francis sacrificed his career by daring to write frankly on this topic.
The essays co er A wide array of topics around a central theme. For open minds only. Francis sacrificed his career by daring to write frankly on this topic.
June 13, 2018
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