
Racializing Humankind: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Practices of 'Race' and Racism
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Debates on historical and contemporary racism have recently become the subject of increasing public interest. The Black Lives Matter movement as well as the Covid-19 pandemic have underlined the importance and urgent necessity of examining racism in society from a multidisciplinary angle. The many facets of racism in the past and present also challenge the way we deal with history ('historical culture') in a globalized world. Rather than focusing on the history of ideas and its discursive development, this volume will focus on the practices of actors. It examines how and which practices, especially practices of comparing, are constitutive in the construction of 'race' and manifestations of racism. This edited volume brings together interdisciplinary contributions from history, sociology, political science, American studies, literary studies, and media studies. An important focus lies on the social asymmetries created by racialization, including inequalities and violence. The chapters foreground historical and contemporary practices of racism and discuss their appearance in different epochs and locations.
Julian T. D. Gärtner is a PhD candidate and research assistant at the Department of Comparative Literature/Romance Studies at Bielefeld University. He is an associate member of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 'Practices of Comparing: Ordering and Changing the World' at Bielefeld University
Julian T. D. Gärtner is a PhD candidate and research assistant at the Department of Comparative Literature/Romance Studies at Bielefeld University. He is an associate member of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 'Practices of Comparing: Ordering and Changing the World' at Bielefeld University
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Göttingen
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Julian T. D. Gärtner | Malin S. Wilckens
Racializing Humankind: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Practices of 'Race' and Racism
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Julian T. D. Gärtner is a PhD candidate and research assistant at the Department of Comparative Literature/Romance Studies at Bielefeld University. He is an associate member of the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) "Practices of Comparing: Ordering and Changing the World" at Bielefeld University
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Wilckens, Malin S./Gärtner, Julian T. D.: Introduction - Conceptualizations and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Practices of 'Race' & Racism
- Premises
- The Interplay of 'Race' and Racism
- Research Perspectives
- Interdisciplinary Perspectives on 'Race' & Racism
- Practices of Comparing as Immanent Constructive Forces in the Thematic Complex of 'Race' & Racism
- Practices of (Current) Institutional/Systemic Racism
- The Momentum of 'Race' in the Production of Knowledge
- Narrative and Representational Practices of 'Race' in Popular Media
- 1. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on 'Race' and Racism
- Winkel, Heidemarie: Tracing (Theories of) Racism in Sociological Thinking: A Postcolonial Approach
- 1. Racism in Sociology's Foundation Phase
- 2. Sociology's Colonial Heritage: The Colonial Episteme
- 3. Decolonization of Sociological Thinking
- 4. Résumé
- Roth, Julia: Tracing Racism: Insights from Postcolonial Studies, Global History, and the Law - American Studies
- Black Interventions and the Foundation of Black Studies and Critical Race Theory in the US
- Academic Disciplines as Colonizing and Racializing Machines
- Area Studies and American Studies Programs Abroad: Export Expertise and Exceptionalism
- Anti-Colonial Critiques, Decolonial Thinking and the German ''Sonderweg''
- Re-Framing American Studies: Towards a Relational Entanglement Perspective
- 2. Practices of Comparing as Immanent Constructive Forces in the Thematic Complex of 'Race' & Racism
- Becker, Andreas: Climate or Biology? Differences in the Description of the Sami Body in European Ethnographic Discourses
- Practices of Comparing and the 'Knowledge of Comparing'
- The Sami in the Swedish Empire
- The Sami Body in Early Modern Europe: Environmentalism and Mutability
- Linnaeus and his Lapland Journey: The Sami Body in the Eyes of a Natural Historian
- Conclusion
- Wilckens, Malin S.: Racializing, Collecting and Comparing Skulls.. Johann Friedrich Blumenbach's and Anders Retzius' Practices of Ordering Humankind
- The Inextricable Link between 'Race' and Comparing
- Blumenbach's Practices of 'Collecting'
- Blumenbach's Practices of Comparing Skulls - Aestheticization and Symmetry
- Anders Retzius' 'Collecting' of Skulls
- Comparing Long and Short Skulls
- Comparing the Sami as the Significant ''Other''
- 'Race' and Practices of Comparing - The Interconnectedness of Difference and Sameness
- Gärtner, Julian T. D.: A Sentimental Science: Comparisons to Plants and Slavery in George Sand's Indiana
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Pale Flowers, or Society as Greenhouse
- 3. A Sentimental Science: Love as Natural History
- 4. Torturous Love: Love Affairs as Slavery
- 5. Imagined Slavery: Comparing as an Abolitionist Counter-Practice
- 6. Conclusion
- 3. Practices of (Current) Institutional/Systemic Racism
- Brown, Mark B.: White Identity Politics in the United States
- Introduction
- White Supremacy and White Privilege
- Conservative White Identity Politics
- Liberal White Antiracism
- Radical White Identity Politics
- Conclusion
- Ragunathan, Sheila: Institutional Racism and Classroom Dynamics in German Higher Education
- Introduction
- Three Focal Points in the Discussion on Institutional Racism in Higher Education
- Higher Education Classroom Experiences and Dynamics
- (Im)Possibility of Anti-Racist Teaching
- Fiocchi, João: No Negro Citizens: Slavery and Citizenship in Comparative Perspective
- Introduction
- A Silenced History of State Formation: Racial Colonialism and Slavery
- ''No Negro, whether slave or free, could ever be considered a citizen''
- Territorial Movement under Racial Capitalism
- Conclusion
- 4. The Momentum of 'Race' in the Production of Knowledge
- Hoffarth, Christian: Like Marvels, like Monsters: Experiences of Otherness and the Emergence of Racial Thought in Medieval European Travel Writing
- Introduction
- The Idea of Race and Medieval Principles of Human Differentiation
- Experiences of Otherness
- Conclusion
- Vartija, Devin J.: Natural Equality and Racial Inequality: An Enlightenment Paradox?
- The Making of the ''Modern'' Idea of Race
- Buffon and the Natural History of Humanity
- Maupertuis, Diderot, and the Consequences of Materialism
- Conclusion
- Bitter-Smirnov, Sophie: Arguing against Monogenism: Strategies in Polygenist Argumentation against the Unity of Humankind
- Introduction
- Background
- Countering Monogenism
- Georg Forster: Rejecting Buffon's Species Concept
- Samuel George Morton: Overturning the Species Concept of Buffon
- A Mulatto is a Hybrid: Josiah C. Nott
- Paul Broca: Good Crossings and Bad Crossings
- Conclusion
- 5. Narrative and Representational Practices of 'Race' in Popular Media
- Smith, L. Katherine: (De)constructing Race and Racism at the Ends of the Earth.. The Hollow Earth and Open Polar Sea Theories in Nineteenth Century American Literature
- Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery (1820)
- Mizora: A Prophecy (1880-1)
- The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)
- Conclusion
- De Boodt, Robrecht: The Green Heart of Africa: Literary Knowledge of Scientific Racism
- Science, Colonial Literature and the Congo
- ''The Colonial in Literature'': Attempting to Establish Epistemic Authority
- Tropical Medicine, Eugenics and Anthropology as Vectors of 'Racial Knowledge'
- Cultural Practice as Alleged Proof of Racial Difference
- Interracial Relationships, Offspring and other Racial Subversions to Colonial Rule
- An 'Authoritative' Patchwork of 'Scientific' Racial Colonial Knowledge
- Njanjo, Burrhus: Articulations of Racism in Vénus Noire (2010) and A United Kingdom (2016)
- 1. Introduction: On the Mediality of Racism in Cinema
- 2. Articulating Scientific Racism in Vénus Noire
- 3. Representing ''Cultural Racism'' in A United Kingdom
- 4. Conclusion
- Baßenhoff, Lisa: Presenting White.. Scientific Conferences and the Practice of Presentation
- (Critical) Whiteness Studies
- Theories of Practice and Race
- Presentation as Performance
- From Writing Culture to Presentation Culture
- Being Involved
- List of Authors
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