Ragtime is the final film appearance of James Cagney.
Essai sur l'inegalite des races humaines -LRB- Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races , 1853 -- 1855 -RRB- by Joseph Arthur , Comte de Gobineau , was a book arguing there were differences between human races , that civilizations decline and fall when the races are mixed and that the white race was superior .. white race. Caucasian race. It is today considered to be one of the earliest examples of scientific racism .. scientific racism. scientific racism. Expanding upon Boulainvilliers ' use of ethnography to defend the Ancien Regime against the claims of the Third Estate , Gobineau aimed for an explanatory system universal in scope  : namely , that race is the primary force determining world events .. Boulainvilliers. Henri de Boulainvilliers. ethnography. ethnography. Ancien Regime. Ancien Regime. Third Estate. Estates General ( France ). an explanatory system universal in scope. metanarrative. Using scientific disciplines as varied as linguistics and anthropology , Gobineau divides the human species into three major groupings , white , yellow and black , claiming to demonstrate that `` history springs only from contact with the white races . ''. linguistics. linguistics. anthropology. anthropology. Among the white races , he distinguishes the Aryan race as the pinnacle of human development , comprising the basis of all European aristocracies .. Aryan race. Aryan race. However , inevitable miscegenation led to the `` downfall of civilizations '' .