Scholars have highlighted the ways in which Jim Crow informed the Nuremberg Laws, yet German colonial rule in Africa produced anti-miscegenation regulations and racial hierarchies that predate the Nazi period.
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The New Yorker,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
Networks of competence are prioritized ahead of hierarchies of authority.
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