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Racisms: From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century

Racisms: From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century

Bethencourt, Francisco

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General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0691169756
ISBN13: 9780691169750
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: Sep 15 2015
Pages: 464
Weight: 1.70
Height: 0.90 Width: 7.00 Depth: 9.90
Language: English

A groundbreaking history of racism

Racisms is the first comprehensive history of racism, from the Crusades to the twentieth century. Demonstrating that there is not one continuous tradition of racism, Francisco Bethencourt shows that racism preceded any theories of race and must be viewed within the prism and context of social hierarchies and local conditions. In this richly illustrated book, Bethencourt argues that in its various aspects, all racism has been triggered by political projects monopolizing specific economic and social resources.

Racisms focuses on the Western world, but opens comparative views on ethnic discrimination and segregation in Asia and Africa. Bethencourt looks at different forms of racism, and explores instances of enslavement, forced migration, and ethnic cleansing, while analyzing how practices of discrimination and segregation were defended.

This is a major interdisciplinary work that moves away from ideas of linear or innate racism and recasts our understanding of interethnic relations.

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