How have definitions of race varied and changed over time? What impact have religion, science and politics had on race throughout history, and how has our concept of it been changed as a result? These ambitious questions are answered by 61 experts who - drawing on perspectives from history, sociology, anthropology, literature and medical humanities - deepen our understanding of how race has developed conceptually and in reality between antiquity and the present day.
Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the relevant chapter in each of the six.
The six volumes cover: 1. Antiquity (500 BCE - 800 CE); 2. Middle Ages (800 - 1350); 3. Renaissance and Early Modern Age (1350 - 1550) ; 4. Reformation and Enlightenment (1550 - 1760); 5. Age of Empire and Nation State (1760 - 1920); 6. Modern and Genomic Age (1920 - 2000+).
Themes (and chapter titles) are: Definitions of Race; Race, Environment and Culture; Race and Religion; Race and Science; Race and Politics; Race and Ethnicity; Race and Gender; Race and Body; and Anti-Race.
The page extent is approximately 1,728 pp. with c. 300 illustrations. Each volume opens with notes on contributors, a series preface and an introduction, and concludes with notes, bibliography and an index.
The Cultural Histories Series
A Cultural History of Race is part of The Cultural Histories Series. Titles are available both as printed hardcover sets for libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a fully-searchable digital library available to institutions by annual subscription or on perpetual access (see www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com).
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Each volume, despite their unique content and editorial flourish, offers the same nine identical chapter titles and topics: "definitions and representations of race"; "race, environment, culture"; "race and religion"; "race and science"; "race and politics"; "race and ethnicity"; "race and gender"; "race and sexuality", and; "anti-race". This simple and elegant decision helps to synchronize the volumes, allowing for ease of topical comparison and transforming otherwise discordant chronicles into "useable pasts". * Ethical and Racial Studies * The detailed, deep and comparative historicization of racial thinking is a very much needed and timely project: much writing about race is temporally and geographically focused and, in its wide-ranging ambitions, this Cultural History of Race represents a very welcome alternative. The use of a common chapter structure throughout the six volumes is a very valuable feature, which makes it easy for readers to follow particular themes, while the multidisciplinary approach is also highly attractive when dealing with a subject as mercurial as race. * Peter Wade, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, UK * Learning from the past is a necessary act of cultural advancement and A Cultural History of Race, a project of sustained historical inquiry from Antiquity to the present, makes a much-needed and exquisitely timely contribution. It argues for rigor and depth of exploration through nine recurring categories of inquiry across the six volumes and challenges the notion of a restrictive timeline of the 'history of race' as the product of modernity. It transcends temporal and geographic limits while expanding our understanding of the variant and shifting terminologies of race. As a result, readers will appreciate the breadth of material and value highly the intellectual diversity of the project's multidisciplinary approach * Ian Smith, Richard and Joan Sell Professor of the Humanities, Lafayette College, USA * Marius Turda, the eminent cultural historian of science and racialization is the general editor for this foundational six-volume study attuned to this 'moment of global reckoning' sparked by #BlackLivesMatter and Indigenous justice movements. This is an outstanding critical, nuanced, useful, anti-racist cartography from European 'Antiquity' through the 'Renaissance,' into colonial 'Empire' formations and state eugenics practices through the racially-coded high tech, big data 'Genomic Age.' Epic and often brilliant, we become painfully aware of how narrow nationalist and nation-bounded scholarship are so painfully limited in contrast to this masterful, satellite counter mapping. Yes, racism and contesting this degeneration of humans and the natural world is a deeply embedded history and of the moment, it's relational and intersectional, and it has infected all trans-regional cultural discourses. A must for all academic and public libraries - five stars!" * John Kuo Wei Tchen, Clement A. Price Professor of Public History & Humanities, Rutgers-Newark University,USA * In a contemporary moment afflicted by concocted culture wars that are also proxy race wars, this important collection of essays does what is urgently needed - by explicating the concept of race in a historical frame. Between them, these volumes show how concepts of 'race' and 'an impressive racial edifice' emerged in the West over several centuries, and became such a powerful political, scientific and cultural force. An important contribution to the historical literacy that is needed if we are to challenge race and racism effectively. * Priyamvada Gopal, Professor of Postcolonial Studies, University of Cambridge, UK * A Cultural History of Race is an admirably ambitious survey of the cultural landscape of race and racism. Analysing the concept of race all the way from antiquity, and drawing in research from every relevant discipline, it paints a story of how difficult it has been for humans to grapple with the idea of human difference. Clarifying and comprehensive, it is sure to become necessary reading for every scholar who wants to understand what race means. It couldn't have more contemporary relevance either. Truly outstanding. * Angela Saini, Author of Superior: The Return of Race Science (2019) * A Cultural History of Race stands on a league of its own within the broad domain of race studies. This splendid, thoughtful array of essays by scholars in a truly diverse number of fields offers an unprecedented, kaleidoscopic panorama of the myriad permutations of race and racism in the West - from Greek and Roman antiquity all the way to the ages of the Genome and Black Lives Matter. The contributors to this collection exemplify just how fresh and engaging historical insight is when we as scholars remain fully engaged with the pressing issues of our own time. As a whole, this collection of essays forcefully delivers important lessons for a broad readership: first, race, racism and human rights advocacy itself are transhistorical phenomena reaching back to the foundational moments of Western civilization. Second, any truly critical history of race and racism requires an honest scrutiny of the manner in which our own fields of knowledge have been shaped by troubled legacies. And, most urgently, the identification of multiple forms of stigmatization, discrimination and persecution in our times - -not to mention the quest for social justice - can hugely benefit from a rich reckoning of the multiplicity of situated forces that have shaped overt and systemic racism to this day. A Cultural History of Race will remain obligatory reference for generations of readers. * Nicolas Wey Gomez, author of The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to the Indies (2008) * In this moment of global racial reckoning, there is a tectonic shift underway. As a more structural, systemic, and historical analysis of race and racialization is emerging, A Cultural History of Race, will be an important accelerant to this process. The pivot from a focus on identity towards one that more critically considers processes and patterns of identification is a process, one that takes time, sustained engagement and a nuanced understanding of the past and its relationship to the present. A Cultural History of Race is just such a text. Its recent completion will be a gift to scholars, activists, the human rights community, and others invested in a more just future, one that doesn't posit certain people or for that matter species as disposable; there is no such thing!
The time has come for us to embrace this reality and work towards a world in which this eliminationist ideology no longer governs our political, social, economic or philosophical spaces. A Cultural History of Race will prove to be a trusted companion and a useful tool for the long journey ahead and will certainly stake a claim to being a cornerstone text for the pivot that is underway. * Milton Reynolds, Educator, Author, Diversity Equity Inclusion Practitioner, Critical Race Theorist *
Marius Turda is Professor in Central and Eastern European Biomedicine at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is the author of Eugenics and Nation in Early 20th Century Hungary (2014); Modernism and Eugenics (2010); The Idea of National Superiority in Central Europe, 1880-1918 (2005), co-author (with Maria Sophia Quine) of Historicizing Race (2018), and the editor of The History of Eugenics in East-Central Europe, 1900-1945: Sources and Commentaries (2015) and Religion, Evolution and Heredity (2018).
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Volume One: A Cultural History of Race in Antiquity
Edited by Denise McCoskey, Miami University, USA
1. Definitions and Representations of Race, Sarah Debrew
2. Race, Environment, Culture, Joseph Skinner
3. Race and Religion, Denise Kimber Buell
4. Race and Science, David Kaufman
5. Race and Politics, Grant Parker
6. Race and Ethnicity, Naoise Mac Sweeney
7. Race and Gender, Shelley P. Haley
8. Race and Sexuality, Jackie Murray
9. Anti-Race, Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Volume Two: A Cultural History of Race in the Medieval Age
Edited by Thomas Hahn, University of Rochester, USA
1. Definitions and Representations of Race, Christine Chism
2. Race, Environment, Culture, Suzanne Conklin Akbari
3. Race and Religion, David Nirenberg
4. Race and Science, Maaike van der Lugt
5. Race and Politics, Geraldine Heng
6. Race and Ethnicity, Thomas Hahn
7. Race and Gender, Sarah Salih
8. Race and Sexuality, Steven F. Kruger
9. Anti-Race, William Chester Jordan and Helmut Reimitz
Volume Three: A Cultural History of Race in the Renaissance and Early Modern Age
Edited by Kimberly A. Coles, University of Maryland, USA and Dorothy Kim, Brandeis University, USA
1. Definitions and Representations of Race, Geraldine Heng
2. Race, Environment, Culture, Adam Miyashiro
3. Race and Religion, Dorothy Kim
4. Race and Science, Rebecca Redfern and Joseph T. Hefner
5. Race and Politics, Matthew Vernon
6. Race and Ethnicity, Kathy Lavezzo
7. Race and Gender, Dorothy Kim and Michelle M. Sauer
8. Race and Sexuality, M. W. Bychowski and Robert Sturges
9. Anti-Race, Asa Simon Mittman
Volume Four: A Cultural History of Race in the Reformation and Enlightenment
Edited by Nicholas Hudson, University of British Columbia, Canada
1. Definitions and Representations of Race, Dennis Austin Britton
2. Race, Environment, Culture, Jean E. Feerick
3. Race and Religion, Robert Bernasconi
4. Race and Science, Suman Seth
5. Race and Politics, Matthew Bennett
6. Race and Ethnicity, Noemie Ndiaye
7. Race and Gender, Carl Plasa
8. Race and Sexuality, Nicholas Hudson
9. Anti-Race, Roxann Wheeler
Volume Five: A Cultural History of Race in the Age of Empire and Nation State
Edited by Marina Mogilner, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
1. Definitions and Representations of Race, Roland Cvetkovski
2. Race, Environment, Culture, Emily Kern
3. Race and Religion, Marwa Elshakry
4. Race and Science, Projit Bihari Mukharji
5. Race and Politics, Sergey Glebov
6. Race and Ethnicity, Richard McMahon
7. Race and Gender, Maria Sophia Quine
8. Race and Sexuality, Myrna Perez Sheldon
9. Anti-Race, Lynn M. Hudson
Volume Six: A Cultural History of Race in the Modern and Genomic Age
Edited by Tanya Golash-Boza, University of California Merced, USA
1. Definitions and Representations of Race, Saher Selod
2. Race, Environment, Culture, Lila Sharif
3. Race and Religion, Raymond Taras
4. Race and Science, Garland E. Allen and Alan Templeton
5. Race and Politics, Manuela Boatca
6. Race and Ethnicity, Peter Kivisto
7. Race and Gender, Alpa Parmar
8. Race and Sexuality, Richard Cleminson
9. Anti-Race, George Dei Nana Adusei Sefa Tweneboah and Asna Adhami
