Race and the Yugoslav Region - Postsocialist, Post-Conflict, Postcolonial?

This study argues that, contrary to many assumptions, Yugoslavia and its successor states are deeply embedded in the global history and politics of 'race', and that the ambiguities of perceiving 'race' in the region's past and present in fact have complex historical roots.

List of contents

Introduction: what does race have to do with the Yugoslav region?
1 Popular music and the 'cultural archive'
2 Histories of ethnicity, nation and migration
3 Transnational formations of race before and during Yugoslav state socialism
4 Postsocialism, borders, security and race after Yugoslavia
Conclusion
Index

About the author

Catherine Baker is Lecturer in Twentieth-Century History at the University of Hull, UK.

Summary

This study argues that, contrary to many assumptions, Yugoslavia and its successor states are deeply embedded in the global history and politics of ‘race’, and that the ambiguities of perceiving ‘race’ in the region’s past and present in fact have complex historical roots. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Baker, Baker Catherine, Catherine Baxter
• Assisted by: Gurminder Bhambra (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781526126627
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-2662-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Theory for a Global Age; Theory for a Global Age
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Miscellaneous; Ethnic Studies, Globalization, Social Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia & Former Yugoslavia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General