European Racism Research Articles

“When you have AIDS, people laugh at you”: A Process Drama approach to Stigma with pupils in Zambia

Kean Gibson. The Cycle of Racial Oppression in Guyana, Maryland, University Press of America, 2003, 97 pages, ISBN 0-7618-2469-3 Kean Gibson's book The Cycle of Racial Oppression in is fairly short and so it can be read in a single afternoon. But make no mistake, the contents of the book are thought provoking to say the least. The crux of the book is that Africans in have been oppressed by East Indians particularly after 1992 under Guyana's East Indian People's Progressive Party (PPP) government. Gibson claims that this attitude was brought from India under the racial rubric of Hinduism, which has a resemblance to European racism. In Guyana, has been a similarity between European and East Indian as practiced since 1992... and that Hinduism - a religion that sanctifies racism is responsible for this neo-ethno-supremacists behavior (1-2).The rest of the opening chapter of the book sketches the definition of race and tries to connect race and politics to the Guyana's political history. The argument, however, is strained. The author also gives us a history of international oppression in regard to the of language beginning with colonialism in Third World and ending with contemporary international terrorism. Name calling, it was argued, is a technique of those in the position of power to dehumanize the other. While these views are welcoming they add nothing new to the literature of world oppression in terms of theory. The author just reiterates a list of world problems. But the chapter set the tone as to what will follow. Gibson writes African-dominated People's National Congress (PNC) was only the political party with an economic development plan and a vision for Guyana in the 2003 general election. There is something sinister about this statement. Mind you, much the same was said when achieved its independence from Britain 1966. The PNC embraced the policy of cooperative socialism, but the record shows that was transformed from a bread basket to a begging bowl of the region. The second chapter examines the history of Guyanese people in regards to labor. Gibson correctly states that European attempts to enslave the Amerindians were not successful and so the Europeans not only traded with the Amerindians but they shifted their colonial enterprise from the interior region to coastal lands. Then the Europeans - Dutch and British - engaged in plantation agriculture. African slaves were subsequently brought to provide the bulk of the labor. In this process, the Amerindians and Africans were enslaved in which their languages, among other things, experienced enormous pidignization and creolization or what Gibson calls linguistic dehumanization (9). Gibson also summarizes Guyana's post-emancipation experience. After the gradual withdrawal of Africans from plantation labor there was a labor shortage which the planters supplanted with immigrants from Europe, Portugal, Africa and Asia. Like everywhere else in the Caribbean that brought in indentured laborers soon after emancipation, was also subsequently transformed into a multi-ethnic or plural society. Each group developed or settled in its own enclave and interacted with each other when necessary. The planters played one ethnic group against the other to secure their safety. The end result was that various stereotypes emerged, which the author highlights (17-21), that hampered race relations in forever. One common theme that emerged, in layman term, was that light skin was good and dark skin was bad. This view was the jurisprudence of not only Guyana's post-emancipation society but the entire New World experience following European exploration and expansion in the fifteenth century. This section adds nothing new to the scholarship on Guyana's post-emancipation experience. It is essentially a review of previous works, mainly that of Professors Alvin Thompson and Brian Moore. Gibson informs us in the third chapter about the formation of the PPP in the late 1940s and the subsequent political- ideological split between Cheddie Jagan and Forbes Burnham. …

Migrants and Technological Transfer: Chinese Farming in Australia, 1850–1920

Chinese farming in Australia between 1850 and 1920 has generally been given little attention, being usu ally characterised as just market gardening, but with little other detail about its development and characteristics. This article argues that Chinese farming was both complex and dynamic. Initially, Chinese farming was primarily casual labouring along European lines. However, from the 1880s onwards, Chinese farming became more specialised, focusing on a wide range of high‐value, labour‐intensive crops. The skill of the Chinese was not just the transference of farming techniques from China, but also in their entrepreneurship and ability to adapt their techniques to the Australian environment. Despite widespread European racism, some Europeans sought to capture the benefits of Chinese farming, developing European–Chinese partnerships. After 1900, Chinese farming declined in scale and diversity. At the same time, Europeans influenced by Chinese success adopted more labour‐intensive farming practices.

Rage and Passion in the Poetry of Frank Marshall Davis

In his Introduction to J. Saunders Redding's important book, To Make a Poet Black, Henry Louis Gates provides a context for appreciating the poetry of Frank Marshall Davis. To the black writer, literature, is often a matter of survival and necessity, a literature produced to perform a political function as much as, if not more than, to embody an aesthetic one. This political function has been to critique European American racism and, simultaneously, to demonstrate the intellectual capacity of all people through the agency of the artistic products of the writer, who becomes a voice of the group, presuming a collective / or we (Gates 1988, xviii). Blacks have also sought to affirm their own humanity through writing and to provide new perspectives on themes of equality, pluralism, reconciliation, humanity, and healing in literature, at the same time triving to maintain ethnic integrity and to preserve positive cultural differences.

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Uncivil society: ‘race’ and murder in Nazi Germany Tim Mason, Social Policy in the Third Reich: The Working Class and the ‘National Community’, ed. Jane Caplan, introd. Ursula Vogel, trans. John Broadwin. Oxford and Providence, Rl: Berg, 1993. xxviii+434pp. Notes. Append. Bibl. Ind. £50.00. David F. Crew (ed.), Nazism and German Society, 1933–1945. London and New York: Routledge, 1994 (Rewriting Histories series). xi+316pp. Notes. £11.99. It's the real thing Steven T. Katz, The Holocaust in Historical Context. Volume 1: The Holocaust and Mass Death in the Modern Age. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994. xviii+702pp. Bibl. Ind. Notes. £40.00. True adventures of court Jews Eli M. Rosenbaum with William Hoffer, Betrayal. The Untold Story of the Kurt Waldheim Investigation and Cover‐Up. New York: St Martin's Press, 1993. xx+522pp. Ind. $25.95. Benjamin Ginsberg, The Fatal Embrace. Jews and the State. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. x+266pp. Ind. $22.00. Columbus and the legacy of 1492 Zia Sardar, Ashis Nandy and Merryl Wyn Davies, Barbaric Others. A Manifesto on Western Racism, London: Pluto Press, 1993. 95pp. Bibl. £7.95. Dutch ambivalence Allison Blakely, Blacks in the Dutch World. The Evolution of Racial Imagery in a Modern Society, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1993. xx+327pp. Notes. Ind. Maps. Illus. £32.50. Agile Italian evasions Daniel Carpi, Between Mussolini and Hitler: The Jews and the Italian Authorities in France and Tunisia. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England for Brandeis University Press, 1994 (Tauber Institute for the Study of European Jewry Series, 17). x+341 pp. Notes. Bibl. Ind. £35.00/$59.95. What colour are Jews? Milton Shain, The Roots of Antisemitism in South Africa. Charlottes‐ville, VA and London: University Press of Virginia, 1994. xii+203pp. Notes. Bibl. Ind. $45.00. Surveying European racism John Wrench and John Solomos (eds.), Racism and Migration in Western Europe, Oxford and Providence, RI: Berg, 1993. x+293pp. Bibl. Ind. £34.95.

The Case of California (review)

Reviews395 female narrator. The erotic, autobiographical novels of the 1980s and 1990s, such as TL· Lover, adapt these complex cinematic techniques to literature. By focusing the reader's gaze through the eyes of a woman character and by recounting the story in a female voice that alternates between first and third persons, Duras asserts her right as both woman and writer to control our understanding of desire, absence, split subjectivity and the coincidence of public and private catastrophe, the preoccupations of her entire career. Schuster's study is useful in explaining problems in Duras's work, such as her appearances in her own films, which Schuster interprets as a positive assertion ofauthorial control, or the overtly personal character of the later novels, which Schuster sees as a means of experimentation with "the self-conscious play between fiction and confession, fantasy and memory" (p. 117). MargueriteDuras RevuitedWAl help Durasophobes and Durasophiles, both ofwhom, according to Schuster, often hold their opinions for the wrong reasons, gain a new understanding of Duras's importance in French fiction and in feminist studies. Whitman CollegeMary Anne O'Neil The Case of California, by Laurence A. Rickels; 373 pp. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991, $45.00 cloth, $13.95 paper. According to Derrida, America is deconstruction. Laurence Rickels helps clarify Derrida's sound bite by relocating California within the analyses of group psychology and mass culture offered by psychoanalysis and the Frankfurt School. In a series of tightly written "cultural clips," Rickels deconstructs "Kalifornien," and by extension "Amerika," as the outer limit of Central European thought. Some highlights from Rickels's analysis of California: It was not only the practice of embalming the dead that had its modern rebirth in California. Out west, popular music, like the horror film, turns on ritual sacrifice: the replacement oflove and war by friendship and suicide. The increasingly drastic assertion of sexuality in popular culture is one of many desperate attempts to deny death: sex is no longer the subtext, it is the pretext. Since it is not very friendly to dig up the death cult underlying culture, California shifts its attention to undying adolescence. Group-think meets its match and maker in the teenager, who "likes to be different like everyone he likes to be like" (p. 165). The group's denial of death only means that death will come back later with renewed energy. Jonestown is the logical living end for the teenage gang. At the very least, these arguments are plausible, usually they are convincing, 396Philosophy and Literature and at times compelling. Occasionally, though, one wonders about Rickels's friends—what kind of a creepy gang is he hanging out with? Adorno's association ofpopular music with Africa and Africa with human sacrifice might seem to fit more easily into a history of European racism than any other analysis. Nor does the Frankfurt School's analysis of the masses as feminine stand up to a feminist critique. Freud's concern about the "rule of women in America" and his conclusion that Woodrow Wilson's breakdown was caused by an American society allegedly consisting primarily of women and effeminate men isn't reassuring either. Along the same lines, psychoanalytic commentary from the 1950s about "clinical" imposters and schizophrenia seems to emerge from a homophobic, as well as sexist, discourse about passive, feminine men, who are the children of absent fathers, and "possessive mothers." But Rickels's point is that one can't distinguish between that racist, sexist, and homophobic tradition and American pop culture. He occasionally ironizes these voices from the past as he channels them—for instance, when he suggests that "mature heterosexuality is designed to rotate perpetually on low like some libido lawn sprinkler" (p. 282). And just when you think he's calling for the return of the Führer, or at least the idealized nuclear family with a strong father, he slips—accidentally on purpose—in a parenthetical remark, and lets you in on a secret: Daddy isn't going to take the T-bird away—the adolescent state he critiques so powerfully "is, after all, here to stay" (p. 286). In fact, his constant use of Californian speech patterns—"totally radical," "tubular...

Voegelin on the Idea of Race: An Analysis of Modern European Racism. Thomas W. Heilke

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsVoegelin on the Idea of Race: An Analysis of Modern European Racism. Thomas W. HeilkeE. H. BeardsleyE. H. Beardsley Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Isis Volume 84, Number 2Jun., 1993 Publication of the History of Science Society Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/356532 Views: 3Total views on this site Copyright 1993 History of Science Society, Inc.PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

Politics and Race Talk in Voegelin - Thomas W. Heilke: Voegelin on the Idea of Race: An Analysis of Modern European Racism. (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. Pp. xvii, 161. $22.50.)

Politics and Race Talk in Voegelin - Thomas W. Heilke: Voegelin on the Idea of Race: An Analysis of Modern European Racism. (Baton Rouge and London: Louisiana State University Press, 1990. Pp. xvii, 161. $22.50.) - Volume 54 Issue 4

Thomas W. Heilke. <italic>Voegelin on the Idea of Race: An Analysis of Modern European Racism</italic>. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1990. Pp. xiii, 161. $22.50

Thomas W. Heilke. Voegelin on the Idea of Race: An Analysis of Modern European Racism. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1990. Pp. xiii, 161. $22.50 Get access Heilke Thomas W.. Voegelin on the Idea of Race: An Analysis of Modern European Racism. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 1990. Pp. xiii, 161. $22.50. Rod Stackelberg Rod Stackelberg Gonzaga University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 96, Issue 4, October 1991, Pages 1191–1192, https://doi.org/10.1086/ahr/96.4.1191 Published: 01 October 1991

Voegelin on the Idea of Race: An Analysis of Modern European Racism.

Voegelin on the Idea of Race: An Analysis of Modern European Racism.

Voegelin on the idea of race: an analysis of modern European racism

Voegelin on the idea of race: an analysis of modern European racism

The Ending of the Slave Trade and the Evolution of European Scientific Racism

How might a discussion of the ending of the Atlantic slave trade in relation to the development of European racism illuminate the question of who gained and who lost? The question can be approached at three levels. The first concerns the degree to which the racial attitudes of Europeans were affected by the process of termination. The second would be how the people of Europe and of Afro-America were affected by the termination itself. The third and broadest aspect would be the long-term effects of that complex process. It seems to me that the answers become more speculative as the scope of potential impact broadens, as the discussion moves from a concern with attitudes and ideology to social conditions, as the geographical scope broadens, and as the temporal dimension to be considered expands to encompass the twentieth century. The first level, the relation of the processes of abolition to racism, is the primary focus of this paper; a few brief remarks on the second and third issues are reserved for the conclusion.

Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism

Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism

Emancipation to Indenture: A Question of Imperial Morality

Between the abolition of slavery, 1834, and World War I, more than a half-million laborers were introduced to the British West Indies under terms of indenture. Indenture implies unfreedom, the exploitation of people forced into exile by misfortune or misadventure. It is an alien concept in modern Western society, and the transoceanic transport of thousands of African and Indian workers during the nineteenth century appears a further testimonial to European racism, to the arrogance of great power, and to the political influence of the West India planters and their merchant associates. In recent years, a growing number of scholars have characterized the whole process of nineteenth-century indenture as a new system of slavery.' If indentured labor has become, retrospectively, a cause for substantial moral indignation in the twentieth century, it was not lacking weighty moral overtones in the nineteenth. Public schemes for transporting contract workers from Africa and Asia to the free British West Indies were

Emancipation to Indenture: A Question of Imperial Morality

Between the abolition of slavery, 1834, and World War I, more than a half-million laborers were introduced to the British West Indies under terms of indenture. Indenture implies unfreedom, the exploitation of people forced into exile by misfortune or misadventure. It is an alien concept in modern Western society, and the transoceanic transport of thousands of African and Indian workers during the nineteenth century appears a further testimonial to European racism, to the arrogance of great power, and to the political influence of the West India planters and their merchant associates. In recent years, a growing number of scholars have characterized the whole process of nineteenth-century indenture as a “new system of slavery.”

Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism.

Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism.

Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism. George L. Mosse

<i>Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism</i>. George L. Mosse

Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism. George L. Mosse

<i>Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism</i>. George L. Mosse

Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism

George L. Mosse. Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism. Howard Fertig: New York, 1978. 227 plus xvi pages. $18.50.

Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism

Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism

Gobineau and the Origins of European Racism

Gobineau and the Origins of European Racism