Introduction. Racism in the Modern World: Historical Perspectives on Cultural Transfer and Adaptation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction. Racism in the Modern World: Historical Perspectives on Cultural Transfer and Adaptation 1
4. 1. The Racialization of the Globe: Historical Perspectives 20
5. 2. How Racism Arose in Europe and Why It Did Not in the Near East 41
6. 3. Culture’s Shadow: “Race” and Postnational Belonging in the Twentieth Century 65
7. 4. Racism and Genocide 84
8. 5. Slavery and Racism in Nineteenth-Century Cuba 105
9. 6. Toward a Transnational History of Racism: Wilhelm Marr and the Interrelationships between Colonial Racism and German Anti-Semitism 122
10. 7. Transatlantic Anthropological Dialogue and “the Other”: Felix von Luschan’s Research in America, 1914–1915 140
11. 8. Transits of Race: Empire and Difference in Philippine-American Colonial History 163
12. 9. Interrogating Caste and Race in South Asia 192
13. 10. The Making of a “Ruling Race”: Defining and Defending Whiteness in Colonial India 213
14. 11. Glocalizing “Race” in China: Concepts and Contingencies at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 236
15. 12. Race without Supremacy: On Racism in the Political Discourse of Late Meiji Japan, 1890–1912 255
16. 13. Hendrik Verwoerd’s Long March to Apartheid: Nationalism and Racism in South Africa 281
17. 14. The “Right Kind of White People”: Reproducing Whiteness in the United States and Australia, 1780s–1930s 303
18. 15. Race and Indigeneity in Contemporary Australia 329
19. Notes on Contributors 353
20. Select Bibliography 357
21. Index 371