Racism a short history
With a rare blend of learning, economy, and cutting insight, George Fredrickson surveys the history of Western racism from its emergence in the late Middle Ages to the present. Beginning with the medieval antisemitism that put Jews beyond the pale of humanity, he traces the spread of racist thinking...
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Princeton, N.J. :
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c2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Religion and the invention of racism
- Rise of modern racism(s) : white supremacy and antisemitism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
- Climax and retreat : racism in the twentieth century
- Epilogue : racism at the dawn of the twenty-first century
- Appendix : The concept of racism in historical discourse.
