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.
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Emphasizing the global nature of racism, this volume brings together historians from various regional specializations to explore this phenomenon from comparative and transnational perspectives.
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
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“What emerges is a complex and polyvalent mapping of how Western notions of biological and scientific racisms were diffused and reworked by anthropologists, colonial policymakers, nationalist reformers, and intellectuals in other global settings.” • Journal of World History “This volume ranges widely and creatively across time and space not only to investigate the history of racism, but also to interrogate its connections with related but distinct forms of oppression and subjugation. In almost every instance, the essays here reach a very high level—much higher than is typical for volumes of this kind.” • Christopher Leslie Brown, Columbia University
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781782380856
Publisert
2013-12-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Berghahn Books
Vekt
517 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
384

Biographical note

Manfred Berg is Curt Engelhorn Professor of American History at the University of Heidelberg. From 1992 to 1997, he was a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. From 2003 to 2005, he served as the executive director of the Center for USA-Studies at the Leucorea in Wittenberg. Berg is a specialist in the history of the African American civil rights movement and race relations and has published numerous books and articles on American and international history. His latest titles include Popular Justice: A History of Lynching in America (Chicago 2011) and Globalizing Lynching History (co-edited with Simon Wendt, Palgrave 2011)