Racism: A Short History

Author: George M. Fredrickson
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691167053
Weight: 0.224 kg
Pages: 207
Year: 2015
Price: RM112

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 in the wake of European expansionism and the beginnings of the African slave trade. And he examines how the Enlightenment and nineteenth-century romantic nationalism created a new intellectual context for debates over slavery and Jewish emancipation.