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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... Medieval Europe. Although antisemitism in the Middle Ages did not encompass a racialization of Jews in the modern sense, demonization, prejudice, and views of Jews as antithetical to Christians formed, Fredrickson claims, a fundamental ...
... medieval Europe—is privileged in the eyes of the secular and religious authorities, racism is not operative if members of stigmatized groups can voluntarily change their identities and advance to positions of prominence and prestige ...
... medieval and early modern periods. Hence we can study its emergence in a time and place for which we have a substantial historical record. Second, the varieties of racism that developed in the West had greater impact on world history ...
... medieval associations of Jews with the Devil, was similar: “Not being a human being but a demonic, a diabolic beast fighting the forces of truth and salvation with Satan's weapons, was the Jew as medieval Europe saw him.”10 Although ...
... Medieval Christians were concerned with the growth of market economies, the enhancement of state power and bureaucracy, and threats to religious orthodoxy from a variety of quarters. Perhaps, as Gavin Langmuir has suggested, some were ...
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 |