Racism in the Modern World

Manfred Berg is Curt Engelhorn Professor of American History at the University of Heidelberg. From 1992 to 1997, he was a research fellow at the German Historical Institute in Washington, D.C. From 2003 to 2005, he served as the executive director of the Center for USA-Studies at the Leucorea in Wittenberg. Berg is a specialist in the history of the African American civil rights movement and race relations and has published numerous books and articles on American and international history. His latest titles include Popular Justice: A History of Lynching in America (Chicago 2011) and Globalizing Lynching History (co-edited with Simon Wendt, Palgrave 2011)

• IntroductionManfred Berg and Simon WendtChapter 1. The Racialization of the Globe: Historical PerspectivesFrank DikötterChapter 2. How Racism Arose in Europe and Why It Did Not in the Near EastBenjamin BraudeChapter 3. Culture's Shadow: “Race” and Postnational Belonging in the Twentieth CenturyChristian GeulenChapter 4. Racism and GenocideBoris BarthChapter 5. Slavery and Racism in Nineteenth-Century CubaMichael ZeuskeChapter 6. Towards a Transnational History of Racism: Wilhelm Marr and the Interrelationships between Colonial Racism and German Anti-SemitismClaudia BrunsChapter 7. Transatlantic Anthropological Dialogue and “the other”: Felix von Luschan’s Research in America, 1914–1915John David SmithChapter 8. Transits of Race: Empire and Difference in Philippine-American Colonial HistoryPaul A. KramerChapter 9. Interrogating Caste and Race in South AsiaGita Dharampal-Frick and Katja GötzenChapter 10. The Making of a “Ruling Race”: Defining and Defending Whiteness in Colonial IndiaHarald Fischer-TinéChapter 11. Glocalising “Race” in China: Concepts and Contingencies a the Turn of the Twentieth CenturyGotelind Müller-SainiChapter 12. Race without Supremacy: On Racism in the Political Discourse of Late Meiji Japan, 1890–1912Urs ZachmannChapter 13. Hendrik Verwoerd’s Long March to Apartheid: Nationalism and Racism in South AfricaChristoph MarxChapter 14. The “Right Kind of White People”: Reproducing Whiteness in the United States and Australia, 1780s–1930sGregory D. SmithersChapter 15. Race and Indigeneity in Contemporary AustraliaA. Dirk MosesNotes on ContributorsSelected Bibliography

“What emerges is a complex and polyvalent mapping of how Western notions of biological and scientific racisms were diffused and reworked by anthropologists, colonial policymakers, nationalist reformers, and intellectuals in other global settings.” • Journal of World History“This volume ranges widely and creatively across time and space not only to investigate the history of racism, but also to interrogate its connections with related but distinct forms of oppression and subjugation. In almost every instance, the essays here reach a very high level—much higher than is typical for volumes of this kind.” • Christopher Leslie Brown, Columbia University