Race Is about Politics (eBook)

Lessons from History

Jean-frederic Schaub (Autor)

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2019
224 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20725-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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-Frederic 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.12.2019
• Übersetzer: Lara Vergnaud
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: abolitionism • Albert Memmi • Alterity • ancient society • anthropologist • anthropometry • anti-Judaism • antipathy • Apartheid • Barbarian • Biological Anthropology • Categorization • Citizenship • Colonial empire • Colonialism • Colonization • Consideration • Criticism • Culturalism • Demography • Disgust • Ethnic Origin • Ethnocentrism • Ethnology • Eugenics • Exclusion • Explanation • Font Bureau • Frantz Fanon • Franz Boas • French nationality law • Heritability • Historical Method • Historiography • Humanities • Ideology • inference • Institution • Intellectual • interracial marriage • Jews • Jim Crow laws • J. (newspaper) • Judaism • Latin America • Lecture • Middle Ages • minority group • Modernity • Nationality • Nazism • negrophobia • Nobility • Nuremberg Laws • obstacle • Opportunism • Persecution • Philosopher • Physiognomy • P. J. Conkwright • Pogrom • Political History • Political Science • Politics • Prejudice • Psychology • Public Policy • Public sphere • Race (human categorization) • racialism • Racialization • Racial politics • Racial segregation • Racial segregation in the United States • Racism • racism in the united states • reason • Religion • result • School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences • Science • scientific racism • Scotch Roman • Slavery • Social Anthropology • Social engineering (political science) • Social reality • social relation • Social Science • social stigma • Social Theory • Society • Sociobiology • Sociocultural evolution • The Other Hand • The Various • Western World • World War II • Writing • Xenophobia
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20725-9 / 0691207259
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20725-4 / 9780691207254