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Book SynopsisEmphasizing the global nature of racism, this volume brings together historians from various regional specializations to explore this phenomenon from comparative and transnational perspectives. The essays shed light on how racial ideologies and practices developed, changed, and spread in Europe, Asia, the Near East, Australia, and Africa, focusing on processes of transfer, exchange, appropriation, and adaptation. To what extent, for example, were racial beliefs of Western origin? Did similar belief systems emerge in non-Western societies independently of Western influence? And how did these societies adopt and adapt Western racial beliefs once they were exposed to them? Up to this point, the few monographs or edited collections that exist only provide students of the history of racism with tentative answers to these questions. More importantly, the authors of these studies tend to ignore transnational processes of exchange and transfer. Yet, as this volume shows, these are crucial t
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“What emerges is a complex and polyvalent mapping of how Western notions of biological and scientific racisms were diffused and reworked by anthropologists, colonial policymakers, nationalist reformers, and intellectuals in other global settings.” • Journal of World History
“This volume ranges widely and creatively across time and space not only to investigate the history of racism, but also to interrogate its connections with related but distinct forms of oppression and subjugation. In almost every instance, the essays here reach a very high level—much higher than is typical for volumes of this kind.” • Christopher Leslie Brown, Columbia University
Table of Contents Introduction
Manfred Berg and Simon Wendt
Chapter 1. The Racialization of the Globe: Historical Perspectives
Frank Dikötter
Chapter 2. How Racism Arose in Europe and Why It Did Not in the Near East
Benjamin Braude
Chapter 3. Culture's Shadow: “Race” and Postnational Belonging in the Twentieth Century
Christian Geulen
Chapter 4. Racism and Genocide
Boris Barth
Chapter 5. Slavery and Racism in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
Michael Zeuske
Chapter 6. Towards a Transnational History of Racism: Wilhelm Marr and the Interrelationships between Colonial Racism and German Anti-Semitism
Claudia Bruns
Chapter 7. Transatlantic Anthropological Dialogue and “the other”: Felix von Luschan’s Research in America, 1914–1915
John David Smith
Chapter 8. Transits of Race: Empire and Difference in Philippine-American Colonial History
Paul A. Kramer
Chapter 9. Interrogating Caste and Race in South Asia
Gita Dharampal-Frick and Katja Götzen
Chapter 10. The Making of a “Ruling Race”: Defining and Defending Whiteness in Colonial India
Harald Fischer-Tiné
Chapter 11. Glocalising “Race” in China: Concepts and Contingencies a the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Gotelind Müller-Saini
Chapter 12. Race without Supremacy: On Racism in the Political Discourse of Late Meiji Japan, 1890–1912
Urs Zachmann
Chapter 13. Hendrik Verwoerd’s Long March to Apartheid: Nationalism and Racism in South Africa
Christoph Marx
Chapter 14. The “Right Kind of White People”: Reproducing Whiteness in the United States and Australia, 1780s–1930s
Gregory D. Smithers
Chapter 15. Race and Indigeneity in Contemporary Australia
A. Dirk Moses
Notes on Contributors
Selected Bibliography
