The reception of Carleton Coon's "The Origin of Races"

[Tennyson]

“In Ways Unacademical”: The Reception of Carleton S. Coon’s
The Origin of Races
JOHN P. JACKSON JR. 2001.

The interpretations are egalitarian rubbish but Coon's work for segregationism together with his cousin Carleton Putnam is interesting.

Also, note this interesting comment about Nordicism:

Coon and Putnam exchanged ideas throughout 1960 as Putnam prepared
his book. To offer two examples: first, Coon warned Putnam away from
questionable sources. For example, Putnam’s admiration for Madison Grant,
Coon warned, was a mistake because of Grant’s Nordicism. In his 1939
book, Races of Europe Coon used the term “Nordic” as a scientific term but
criticized “Nordicism” which he defined as “the misuse of racial terminology
for political purposes, based on the unproved assumption that Nordics
are superior in mental and moral attributes to members of other races.”
To Putnam, Coon wrote that “To most minds [Grant] evokes fascism and
racism of a Hitlerian variety and to quote him would only reduce the number
of persons who would continue reading after seeing him.”