James Q. Whitman is an American lawyer and Ford Foundation Professor of Comparative and Foreign Law at Yale University.
[4][5] In 2015, he was awarded a doctorate honoris causa by the Catholic University of Leuven Whitman's 2017 book, Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law, received wide coverage in the news and academia.
Just as the Jim Crow Laws prohibited and criminalized intermarriage between Whites and Blacks, though as his book points out these types of laws existed in 30 states, many outside of the Jim Crow south.
This was disturbing even to National Socialist policymaker, who shuddered at the ‘human hardness’ it entailed.
According to the Nuremberg Race Laws, a ″full Jew″ was only someone who had three or four Jewish grandparents; there were also – in National Socialist terminology – ″half Jews″ and ″quarter Jews″, but they were not affected by the same discrimination.