Historicizing Race

What led so many intellectuals, politicians and scientists to believe in, and insist on, the existence of race? In exploring this question this book examines themes in the history of race, including nationalism, imperialism, colonialism, eugenics, biopolitics, fascism, Nazism and communism, from 1789 to the present day. Race and Modernity provides an easily accessible, but conceptually challenging, synthesis of the current research into the relationship between race and modernity, richly illustrated with reference to primary source material. Specifically, the book examines how societies the world over appropriated the concept of race as a vehicle for transmitting social and political messages that transgressed political differences and opposing ideological camps. The authors examine case studies from the UK, the United States, Japan, Romania, Greece and Sudan, among others, and use these to chart the emergence and evolution of the concept of race, and look at the legacy of these ideas for the present day.

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• Authors: Tudor Georgescu, Tudor Quine Georgescu, Maria Sophia Quine, Maria Sophia (Oxford Brookes University Quine, Quine Maria Sophia, Marius Turda, Marius (Oxford Brookes University Turda, Marius Georgescu Turda, Turda Marius
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.02.2018
• EAN: 9781441184245
• ISBN: 978-1-4411-8424-5
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History of Ideas, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 21st Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Social and cultural history, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies