Blackness in Western Europe: Racial Patterns of Paternalism and Exclusion

by Dienke Hondius

Book Overview

While the study of race relations in the United States continues to inspire and influence European thinking, Europeans have yet to confront their own history. To be black in Europe whether during the sixteenth century or today means sharing one crucial experience: being part of a small, but visible minority.

European slave-owners, company directors, and investors in the distant past maintained an ocean-wide gap between themselves and the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138507733
• ISBN13: 9781138507739
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 362 Pages