Racism: A Short History Scribe Publications, 2002 - 207 pages Investigation into the history of racism in the western world. Compares the growth of European medieval anti-Semitism through centuries of European expansionism with the African slave trade and its impact on 19th-century America. The beginnings of intellectual debates over Jewish emancipation and slavery during the 19th century is explored as well as the 20th century's blatantly racist regimes such as apartheid South Africa and Nazi Germany. First published in the US by Princeton University Press. This Australian edition includes a foreword by Robert Manne, Associate Professor of Politics at La Trobe University, Melbourne, and a regular commentator on social affairs. Includes appendix, notes and index. Author is the Professor of United States History at Stanford University whose other titles include 'The Black Image in the White Mind', 'The Arrogance of Race' and 'The Comparative Imagination'. |
