Race is about politics lessons from history
Race is about politics: lessons from history

How the history of racism without visible differences between people challenges our understanding of the history of racial thinkingRacial divisions have returned to the forefront of politics in the United States and European societies, making it more important than ever to understand race and racism...

Ausführliche Beschreibung

Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
1. Verfasser: Schaub, Jean-Frédéric 1963- (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Vergnaud, Lara (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton ; Oxford Princeton University Press [2019]
Schlagworte:
Geschichte
HISTORY / World
Race discrimination > Government policy > History
Race relations > History
Race > Political aspects
Racism > History
Rassismus
Rassenpolitik
Frankreich
Online-Zugang:DE-1043
DE-1046
DE-858
DE-859
DE-860
DE-188
DE-473
DE-355
DE-706
DE-739
Volltext
Zusammenfassung:How the history of racism without visible differences between people challenges our understanding of the history of racial thinkingRacial divisions have returned to the forefront of politics in the United States and European societies, making it more important than ever to understand race and racism. But do we? In this original and provocative book, acclaimed historian Jean-Frédéric Schaub shows that we don't-and that we need to rethink the widespread assumption that racism is essentially a modern form of discrimination based on skin color and other visible differences. On the contrary, Schaub argues that to understand racism we must look at historical episodes of collective discrimination where there was no visible difference between people. Built around notions of identity and otherness, race is above all a political tool that must be understood in the context of its historical origins.Although scholars agree that races don't exist except as ideological constructions, they disagree about when these ideologies emerged. Drawing on historical research from the early modern period to today, Schaub makes the case that the key turning point in the political history of race in the West occurred not with the Atlantic slave trade and American slavery, as many historians have argued, but much earlier, in fifteenth-century Spain and Portugal, with the racialization of Christians of Jewish and Muslim origin. These Christians were discriminated against under the new idea that they had negative social and moral traits that were passed from generation to generation through blood, semen, or milk-an idea whose legacy has persisted through the age of empires to today.Challenging widespread definitions of race and offering a new chronology of racial thinking, Schaub shows why race must always be understood in the context of its political history
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 203 Seiten)
ISBN:9780691207254
DOI:10.1515/9780691207254

Es ist kein Print-Exemplar vorhanden.

Fernleihe Bestellen Achtung: Nicht im THWS-Bestand! Volltext öffnen

Ähnliche Einträge