An illuminating history of racism answers important questions about the origins of anti-Semitism and white supremacy in Europe and America.

Product Description: A scholar of race and a leader in the Afro-Asian solidarity movement, Cedric Dover embodied the 20th-century cosmopolitan redefinition of racial identity. Tracing Dover's evolution through his relationships with W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, and Paul Robeson, this book tracks racial identity in the twentieth century...read more

Is it possible to speak of western racism before the eighteenth century? The term 'racism' is normally only associated with theories, which first appeared in the eighteenth century, about inherent biological differences that made one group superior to another. Here, however, leading historians argue that racism can be traced back to the attitudes of the ancient Greeks to their Persian enemies and that it was adopted, adjusted and re-formulated by Europeans right through until the dawn of the Enlightenment. From Greek teachings on environmental determinism and heredity, through medieval concepts of physiognomy, down to the crystallization of attitudes to Indians, Blacks, Jews and Gypsies in the early modern era, they analyse the various routes by which racist ideas travelled before maturing into murderous ideologies in the modern western world. In so doing this book offers a major reassessment of the place of racism in pre-modern European thought.

Product Description: This book demonstrates the international dimension of eugenic racial policy and of scientific racism over the course of the twentieth century.

Tracing the idea of race through three centuries of North American history, the author shows race to be a cultural construct - a folk worldview fabricated within English culture. The book offers a detailed insight into European and particularly English 18th- and 19th-century intellectual and popular beliefs about "race".

Product Description: Tracking of the function of the political economy of race and looks at the function of racism. The author tracks the response to white supremacist writing, looks at views by anthropologists, scientists and other thinkers of the day, biological difference between races, cultural characteristics...read more

Product Description: In 1981, Stephen Jay Gould exposed the bad science behind nineteenth-century American studies that “proved” that Anglo-Saxons were superior because they had larger brains. In The Skull Measurer’s Mistake, Sven Lindqvist tells the story of Friedrich Tiedemann, the nineteenth-century German doctor who dared to speak out against such racist science when it was first practiced...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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