The History of Racism (LV / Lecture)

The lecture will provide an overview over the history of racism from antiquity to the postwar era. It will address the relationship with different historical developments like colonialism, slavery, race science, eugenics, segregation and genocide. The lecture will discuss the exemplary developments in different European and non-European societies. While the perspective of the victims of racist discrimination will be addressed frequently, the course also focusses on the logic of such discrimination. For this, various related issues are going to be raised, like anti-black racism, antisemitism, hatred against Sinti and Roma etc.

Literature:

-      Bethencourt, Francisco: Racisms. From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century, Princeton 2013.

-      Fredrickson, George Marsh: Racism. A Short History, 5. Aufl., Princeton 2003.

-      Hannaford, Ivan: Race : The History of an Idea in the West, Baltimore 1996.

-      Hund, Wulf D.: Wie die Deutschen weiß wurden. Kleine (Heimat)Geschichte des Rassismus, Stuttgart 2017.

-      Mosse, George L.: Toward the Final Solution: A History of European Racism, Madison (Wisc.) 1985.

Modul(e): M3, BA-KulT BiWi 4b