Traces of History
Elementary Structures of Race
Published on 12. January 2016
306 pages
978-1-78168-918-9 (ISBN)
Description
Traces of History presents a new approach to race and to comparative colonial studies. Bringing a historical perspective to bear on the regimes of race that colonizers have sought to impose on Aboriginal people in Australia, on Blacks and Native Americans in the United States, on Ashkenazi Jews in Western Europe, on Arab Jews in Israel/Palestine, and on people of African descent in Brazil, this book shows how race marks and reproduces the different relationships of inequality into which Europeans have coopted subaltern populations: territorial dispossession, enslavement, confinement, assimilation, and removal.
Charting the different modes of domination that engender specific regimes of race and the strategies of anti-colonial resistance they entail, the book powerfully argues for cross-racial solidarities that respect these historical differences.
Charting the different modes of domination that engender specific regimes of race and the strategies of anti-colonial resistance they entail, the book powerfully argues for cross-racial solidarities that respect these historical differences.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-78168-918-9 (9781781689189)
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Person
Patrick Wolfe is a writer and historian who lives and works in Wurundjeri country near Healesville, Australia. His books include Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology. He has worked at universities in Australia and the United States and is currently in the History Programme at La Trobe University.
Content
- Intro
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter One: In Whole and In Part: The Racialisation of Indigenous People in Australia
- Chapter Two: The Two Minds of the South: Race and Democracy in the United States
- Chapter Three: Not About the Jews: Antisemitism in Central Europe
- Chapter Four: Whoever Says Brazil Says Angola: Africans, Natives and Colour in Brazil
- Chapter Five: The Red Race on Our Borders: Dispossessing Indians, Making the United States
- Chapter Six: The Red Race in Our Bosom: Racialising Indians in the United States
- Chapter Seven: Purchase by Other Means: Dispossessing the Natives in Palestine
- Chapter Eight: New Jews for Old: Racialising the Jewish State
- Conclusion: The Unfinished Business of Race
- Acknowledgements
- Select Bibliography
- Index
