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Racism in the modern world: historical perspectives on cultural transfer and adaptation

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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. The essays shed light on how racial ideologies and practices developed, changed, and spread in Europe, Asi...

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Other Authors: Berg, Manfred (Contributor, Editor) , Wendt, Simon (Contributor, Editor) , Barth, Boris (Contributor) , Braude, Benjamin (Contributor) , Bruns, Claudia (Contributor) , Dharampal-Frick, Gita (Contributor) , Dikötter, Frank (Contributor) , Fischer-Tiné, Harald (Contributor) , Geulen, Christian (Contributor) , Götzen, Katja (Contributor) , Kramer, Paul A. (Contributor) , Marx, Christoph (Contributor) , Moses, A. Dirk (Contributor) , Müller, Gotelind (Contributor) , Smith, John David (Contributor) , Smithers, Gregory D. (Contributor) , Zachmann, Urs Matthias (Contributor) , Zeuske, Michael (Contributor)
Format: Book/Monograph
Language:English
Published: New York Oxford Berghahn Books [2011]
DOI:10.1515/9780857450777
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Author Notes:ed. by Simon Wendt, Manfred Berg
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. Racism in the Modern World: Historical Perspectives on Cultural Transfer and Adaptation
  • 1. The Racialization of the Globe: Historical Perspectives
  • 2. How Racism Arose in Europe and Why It Did Not in the Near East
  • 3. Culture’s Shadow: “Race” and Postnational Belonging in the Twentieth Century
  • 4. Racism and Genocide
  • 5. Slavery and Racism in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
  • 6. Toward a Transnational History of Racism: Wilhelm Marr and the Interrelationships between Colonial Racism and German Anti-Semitism
  • 7. Transatlantic Anthropological Dialogue and “the Other”: Felix von Luschan’s Research in America, 1914–1915
  • 8. Transits of Race: Empire and Difference in Philippine-American Colonial History
  • 9. Interrogating Caste and Race in South Asia
  • 10. The Making of a “Ruling Race”: Defining and Defending Whiteness in Colonial India
  • 11. Glocalizing “Race” in China: Concepts and Contingencies at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
  • 12. Race without Supremacy: On Racism in the Political Discourse of Late Meiji Japan, 1890–1912
  • 13. Hendrik Verwoerd’s Long March to Apartheid: Nationalism and Racism in South Africa
  • 14. The “Right Kind of White People”: Reproducing Whiteness in the United States and Australia, 1780s–1930s
  • 15. Race and Indigeneity in Contemporary Australia
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index

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