A >Crisis of Whiteness< in the >Heart of Darkness<
Racism and the Congo Reform Movement
1st Edition
Published on 12. January 2021
396 pages
978-3-8394-5498-5 (ISBN)
Description
The British and American Congo Reform Movement (ca. 1890-1913) has been praised extensively for its >heroic< confrontation of colonial atrocities in the Congo Free State. Its commitment to white supremacy and colonial domination, however, continues to be overlooked, denied, or trivialised. This historical-sociological study argues that racism was the ideological cornerstone and formed the main agenda of this first major human rights campaign of the 20th century. Through a thorough analysis of contemporary sources, Felix Lösing unmasks the colonial and racist formation of the modern human rights discourse and investigates the >historical work< of racism at a crossroads between imperial power and >white crisis<.
Reviews / Votes
»Lösings Studie bietet einen wichtigen und längst überfälligen, weil rassismuskritischen Blick auf eine humanitäre Bewegung, von der viele akademische und publizistische Meinungsführer:innen behaupten, sie sei die erste Menschenrechtsbewegung der Moderne gewesen. Das vorliegende Werk ist durch akribische Recherche charakterisiert und resultiert in einer lesenswerten Rekonstruktion des historischen und kulturellen Diskurses um die CRA, ohne dabei ideologisch zu polarisieren oder zu relativieren.«More details
Series
Thesis
Doctoral thesis
2020
Universität Hamburg
Language
English
Place of publication
Bielefeld
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
11
11 s/w Abbildungen
11 SW-Abbildungen
File size
6,72 MB
ISBN-13
978-3-8394-5498-5 (9783839454985)
DOI
10.14361/9783839454985
Schweitzer Classification
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Book
12/2020
1st Edition
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Person
Felix Lösing (Dr. phil.), born 1983, teaches at the Ev. Hochschule für Diakonie und Soziale Arbeit, Hamburg. The sociologist studied at the Hamburg University for Economics and Political Science and the University of Essex, Colchester. Awarded with a scholarship by the German Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation, he did his doctorate at the University of Hamburg. His research focuses on history and theory of racism and colonialism.
