Persistence of Race - Continuity Change in Germany From Wilhelmine Empire to National

Race in 20th-century German history is an inescapable topic, one that has been defined overwhelmingly by the narratives of degeneracy that prefigured the Nuremberg Laws and death camps of the Third Reich. As the contributions to this innovative volume show, however, German society produced a much more complex variety of racial representations over the first part of the century. Here, historians explore the hateful depictions of the Nazi period alongside idealized images of African, Pacific and Australian indigenous peoples, demonstrating both the remarkable fixity race had as an object of fascination for German society as well as the conceptual plasticity it exhibited through several historical eras.

About the author

Lara Day is an art and cultural historian who earned her doctorate at the University of Edinburgh. She has written on such topics as the artist Anselm Kiefer, collective guilt, and the Wilhelmine Heimatschutz movement, and is she currently preparing an intellectual biography of Paul Schultze-Naumburg for publication. She works for Artsy in Berlin.

Oliver Haag teaches at the University of Barcelona and is Visiting Professorial Fellow at Queen Mary’s College, Chennai. He is the co-editor of Ngapartji Ngapartji: Reciprocal Engagement (Australian National University Press) and has  authored a special issue of National Identities (Routledge). His scholarship has appeared in Continuum, Aboriginal History, Journal of New Zealand Studies, and Neohelicon, among others.

Product details

• Authors: Lara Haag Day
• Assisted by: Lara Day (Editor), Day Lara (Editor), Oliver Haag (Editor), Haag Oliver (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.07.2024
• EAN: 9781805393344
• ISBN: 978-1-80539-334-4
• No. of pages: 274
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, 20th Century, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social discrimination & inequality, General and world history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, Social discrimination and social justice, History: 20th Century to Present, Sociology