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From Jim Crow to Nuremberg: The Global Legacy of American Race Law

This class focuses one of the most sobering intersections of American and world history. Pastor Stephen McKinney-Whitaker leads a discussion on how American race law—especially Jim Crow segregation and immigration restrictions—influenced Nazi Germany’s legal framework for racial hierarchy, culminating in the infamous Nuremberg Laws of 1935. Drawing on the groundbreaking research of Yale law professor James Q. Whitman (Hitler’s American Model), we’ll examine how Nazi legal theorists studied U.S. precedents such as anti-miscegenation laws, citizenship restrictions, and racial classifications. Disturbingly, some Nazi jurists even found American racial laws more extreme than what they proposed for Germany. This class is not about assigning guilt by association, but about facing the uncomfortable truth: legal systems rooted in racism can cross borders and inspire atrocities elsewhere. Understanding this history helps us reckon with America’s legacy, the global impact of white supremacy, and the profound responsibility that law has in shaping society—for harm or for justice. Join us as we reflect on this history, its warnings for today, and the hope we find in movements for justice that resist oppression and inspire liberation around the world.