Whilst terms such as Lebensraum are commonly associated with National-Socialist ideology of the 1930s and 40s, ideas of racial living space were in fact generated in the previous decades by an international geographic community of explorers and academics. Focusing on one of the …
Race: the history of the idea in America
Race: the history of an idea in America
When Thomas Gossett's "Race: The History of an Idea in America" appeared in 1963, it explored the impact of race theory on American letters in a way that anticipated the investigation of race and culture being conducted today. Here, reprinted without change, is Gossett's classic…
An investigation of men whom the Nazis classified as Jews or "partial-Jews" serving in the German armed forces during World War II.
""There Are No Slaves in France": The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancient Regime examines the paradox of political antislavery and institutional racism in the century prior to the French Revolution." "Black slaves who came to France as domestic servants of colon…
There Are No Slaves in France examines the paradoxical emergence of political antislavery and institutional racism in the century prior to the French Revolution. Sue Peabody shows how the political culture of late Bourbon France created ample opportunities for contestation over …
Focusing primarily on Americans' views of blackness, Davis provides cross-cultural comparisons to demonstrate how other countries' interpretations of who is black vary. He details and closely analyzes the history of the "one-drop rule," which states that any person having at lea…
"Paul C. Taylor provides an accessible guide to a well-traveled but still mysterious area of the contemporary social landscape. As in the first edition, the book blends metaphysics and social philosophy, analytic philosophy and pragmatic philosophy of experience. In this thoroug…
The theory that the Jews have their own distinctive and inherent physical characteristics goes back to the Middle Ages and was used in many cases to denigrate Jews. In the 19th-early 20th centuries, the theory of a specific Jewish race (separate and common to all Jews) served to…
"This fascinating study in the sociology of knowledge documents the refutation of scientific foundations for racism in Britain and the United States between the two world wars, when racial differences were no longer attributed to biological but to cultural factors. Professor Bar…
"This fascinating study in the sociology of knowledge documents the refutation of scientific foundations for racism in Britain and the United States between the two world wars, when racial differences were no longer attributed to biological but to cultural factors. Professor Bar…
