Henry Pratt Fairchild (1880–1956) spent the bulk of his academic career at New York University where he was on the faculty for twenty-six years, serving as Chairman of the Department of Sociology in the Graduate School. He published research on race, nationalism, and ethnic conflict; he also was involved with the founding of Planned Parenthood and served as president of the American Eugenics Society. In his book The Melting-Pot Mistake (1926), Fairchild argued that the melting pot metaphor coined by Israel Zangwill in his 1909 play “The Melting-Pot” was picturesque, but it was a fallacy that failed to account for the apparent disintegration of American society that had been in the making during the past fifty years of unbridled immigration. According to Fairchild, the group unity necessary for national cohesion and well-being was endangered because the differences of ‘groups’ are not ‘meltable,’ as “the primary basis of group unity is racial.”For Fairchild, America represents “truth, beauty, goodness, morality, justice, propriety, efficiency, custom, order, and – home,” and to maintain those stellar qualities, it must remain a white man’s country. Today, it is mainly white nationalists and neo-Nazis who openly and unapologetically express such overtly racist views.