Racism : a short history /

Are antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why didn't racism appear in Europe before the fourteenth century, and why did it flourish as never before in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? Why did the twentieth century see institutionalized racism in its mo...

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Main Author: Fredrickson, George M., 1934-2008 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2015.
Series:Princeton classics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; FOREWORD TO THE PRINCETON CLASSICS EDITION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; ONE Religion and the Invention of Racism; TWO The Rise of Modern Racism(s): White Supremacy and Antisemitism in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; THREE Climax and Retreat: Racism in the Twentieth Century; EPILOGUE Racism at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century; APPENDIX The Concept of Racism in Historical Discourse; NOTES; INDEX.