But of course Germany is not the Germany of the Niebelungs and the racial myths of the Rhine.

So it was that another example of bad science created a racial myth.

Dies The Air Force general, who shattered racial myths as commander of the Tuskegee Airmen, the pioneering black World War II fighter pilots, was 89.

Mr. Berger's excellent show is much smaller, and his focus is on contemporary artists who deliberately examine racial myths and constructs.

It's your racial myth.

They not only reinforce America's oldest racial myth but, for blacks, they have the effect of stigmatizing the already stigmatized.

"The Protectors are one of our more colorful racial myths," the alien said.

"But you must not be dismayed by Betularn's overliteral interpretation of the racial myth."

But a revival of racial and imperial myths - really the same thing in Japan - could have serious consequences nonetheless.

He is always a truth-teller and a trickster, exposing, veiling, struggling with our most primal racial myths.