Racism: A Short HistoryPrinceton University Press, 2015 M09 15 - 232 pages Are antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why didn't racism appear in Europe before the fourteenth century, and why did it flourish as never before in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? Why did the twentieth century see institutionalized racism in its most extreme forms? Why are egalitarian societies particularly susceptible to virulent racism? What do apartheid South Africa, Nazi Germany, and the American South under Jim Crow have in common? How did the Holocaust advance civil rights in the United States? |
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... innate, indelible, and unchangeable that a racist attitude or ideology can be said to exist. It finds its clearest expression when the kind of ethnic differences that are firmly rooted in language, customs, and kinship are overridden in ...
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Contents
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White Supremacy and Antisemitism in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries | 49 |
Racism in the Twentieth Century | 97 |
EPILOGUE Racism at the Dawn of the TwentyFirst Century | 139 |
APPENDIX The Concept of Racism in Historical Discourse | 151 |
NOTES | 171 |
INDEX | 193 |