Race & Racism In Modern Europe

Catalog description

Ranging from the end of the Enlightenment to the present, examines how “race” has constructed European identity and how it informed Western social theories that aided in the construction of racial others. Considers in detail the doctrines of scientific racism and eugenics, colonial racism, racial anti-Semitism and xenophobic nationalism to study how race has structured the colonial enterprises of modern European states, fascist ideology, popular and political discourse about immigration, and the intersection of race with national and gender identities. Ends with a consideration of diaspora and hybridity by exploring the life of former colonials in the metropole and their influence on European politics and culture.