Identity and Intolerance - Nationalism, Racism, and Xenophobia in Germany and the United States

Klappentext This book provides a comparison of nationalism! racism! and xenophobia in Germany and the United States. Zusammenfassung These essays provide a comparison of nationalism! racism! and xenophobia in Germany and the United States! examine facets of the political! cultural! and social history of inclusion and exclusion in both countries! and sharpen our understanding of the symbolic construction and the social and political practices of 'us' and 'them'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Concepts of National Identity and the Symbolic Construction of Nations: 1. National identity and the conditions of tolerance; 2. The historical invention and modern reinvention of two national identities; 3. Segmented politics: xenophobia, citizenship, and political loyalty in Germany; 4. The discoursive construction of national stereotypes: collective imagination and racist concepts in Germany before World War I; 5. Integration and fragmentation discourses: demanding and supplying 'identity' in diverse societies; Part II. The Social and Cultural Practice of Racism: 6. Race, class, and Southern racial violence; 7. Racism and Empire: a perspective on a new era of American history; 8. Police, African Americans, and Irish immigrants in the nation's capital; 9. The politics of boycotting: experiences in Germany and the United States since 1880; 10. Jews and the German language; Part III. Race, Gender, Body, Biology: 11. Ambiguous roles: the racial factor in American womanhood; 12. Citizenship embodied: racialized gender and the construction of nationhood in the United States; 13. Body matters: race, gender, and perceptions of physical ability from Goethe to Weininger; 14. A horse breeder's perspective: scientific racism in Germany, 1870-1933; 15. The thin line between eugenics and preventive medicine.

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• Authors: Norbert Finzsch, Norbert (Universitat Hamburg) Schirmer Finzsch, Norbert Schirmer Finzsch
• Assisted by: Norbert Finzsch (Editor), Norbert (Universitat Hamburg) Finzsch (Editor), Finzsch Norbert (Editor), David Lazar (Editor), Dietmar Schirmer (Editor), Dietmar (Cornell University Schirmer (Editor), Schirmer Dietmar (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.07.2002
• EAN: 9780521525992
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52599-2
• No. of pages: 468
• Series: Publications of the German Historical Institute; Publications of the German His; Publications of the German Historical Institute
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; USA, Germany, HISTORY / World, Nationalism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, General & world history, United States of America, USA, General and world history