Racism

Autor*innen

• George M. Fredrickson

Parameter

• 232 Seiten
• 9 Lesestunden

• Historisches Thema
• Politik
• Politikwissenschaft
• Sachliteratur
• Sozialwissenschaften

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Are antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? The book explores why racism did not emerge in Europe until the fourteenth century and why it intensified in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, culminating in extreme forms of institutionalized racism in the twentieth century. It examines the susceptibility of egalitarian societies to virulent racism and draws parallels between apartheid South Africa, Nazi Germany, and the American South under Jim Crow. The author investigates how the Holocaust contributed to advancing civil rights in the United States. With a blend of scholarship and insight, the narrative surveys Western racism's history from the late Middle Ages to the present, starting with medieval antisemitism that marginalized Jews. It traces the evolution of racist thought alongside European expansionism and the African slave trade, and analyzes how the Enlightenment and nineteenth-century romantic nationalism shaped debates over slavery and Jewish emancipation. The author provides a sustained comparison between the color-coded racism of nineteenth-century America and the antisemitic racism in Germany, highlighting both similarities and significant differences in the stereotypes used. The book concludes with an analysis of the rise and decline of openly racist regimes in the twentieth century, set against broader historical developments. This work uniquely addresses racism across a w

• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Einband: Paperback