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🔴 **Race and the printed language: roman and gothic letterforms in the making of the “Aryan race”**

_“The article examines the birth and evolution of the roman and gothic typefaces, following Gutenberg’s printing press in the fifteenth century, and assesses how Nazi publications harked back to German and European typographic traditions to make the printed word a vehicle of German “Aryan” identity and divide readers.”_

Waldeck, M. and Leoussi, A. S. (2024) ‘Race and the printed language: roman and gothic letterforms in the making of the “Aryan race”’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, pp. 1–28. doi: doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024..

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