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Racism in the Modern World

Historical Perspectives on Cultural Transfer and Adaptation
1. Aufl.

von: Manfred Berg, Simon Wendt
38,99 €
Verlag:	Berghahn Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	01.04.2011
ISBN/EAN:	9780857450777
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	384

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Titelbeschreibung

Emphasizing the global nature of racism, this volume brings together historians from various regional specializations to explore this phenomenon from comparative and transnational perspectives. The essays shed light on how racial ideologies and practices developed, changed, and spread in Europe, Asia, the Near East, Australia, and Africa, focusing on processes of transfer, exchange, appropriation, and adaptation. To what extent, for example, were racial beliefs of Western origin? Did similar belief systems emerge in non-Western societies independently of Western influence? And how did these societies adopt and adapt Western racial beliefs once they were exposed to them? Up to this point, the few monographs or edited collections that exist only provide students of the history of racism with tentative answers to these questions. More importantly, the authors of these studies tend to ignore transnational processes of exchange and transfer. Yet, as this volume shows, these are crucial to an understanding of the diffusion of racial belief systems around the globe.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Manfred Berg and Simon Wendt
 Chapter 1. The Racialization of the Globe: Historical Perspectives Frank Dikötter
 Chapter 2. How Racism Arose in Europe and Why It Did Not in the Near East Benjamin Braude
 Chapter 3. Culture's Shadow: “Race” and Postnational Belonging in the Twentieth Century Christian Geulen
 Chapter 4. Racism and Genocide Boris Barth
 Chapter 5. Slavery and Racism in Nineteenth-Century Cuba Michael Zeuske
 Chapter 6. Towards a Transnational History of Racism: Wilhelm Marr and the Interrelationships between Colonial Racism and German Anti-Semitism Claudia Bruns
 Chapter 7. Transatlantic Anthropological Dialogue and “the other”: Felix von Luschan’s Research in America, 1914–1915 John David Smith
 Chapter 8. Transits of Race: Empire and Difference in Philippine-American Colonial History Paul A. Kramer
 Chapter 9. Interrogating Caste and Race in South Asia Gita Dharampal-Frick and Katja Götzen
 Chapter 10. The Making of a “Ruling Race”: Defining and Defending Whiteness in Colonial India Harald Fischer-Tiné
 Chapter 11. Glocalising “Race” in China: Concepts and Contingencies a the Turn of the Twentieth Century Gotelind Müller-Saini
 Chapter 12. Race without Supremacy: On Racism in the Political Discourse of Late Meiji Japan, 1890–1912 Urs Zachmann
 Chapter 13. Hendrik Verwoerd’s Long March to Apartheid: Nationalism and Racism in South Africa Christoph Marx
 Chapter 14. The “Right Kind of White People”: Reproducing Whiteness in the United States and Australia, 1780s–1930s Gregory D. Smithers
 Chapter 15. Race and Indigeneity in Contemporary Australia A. Dirk Moses
 Notes on Contributors Selected Bibliography

Autorenportrait

Simon Wendt is assistant professor of American Studies at the University of Frankfurt. He is the author of The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil Rights (Gainesville, 2007). He is currently working on a history of the Daughters of the American Revolution.