Drawing the Global Colour Line: White Men's Countries and the International Challenge of Racial Equality

by Marilyn Lake and Henry Reynolds

Book Overview

In 1900 W. E. B. DuBois prophesied that the colour line would be the key problem of the twentieth-century and he later identified one of its key dynamics: the new religion of whiteness that was sweeping the world. Whereas most historians have confined their studies of race-relations to a national framework, this book studies the transnational circulation of people and ideas, racial knowledge and technologies that under-pinned the construction of self-styled...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521707528
• ISBN13: 9780521707527
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 382 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"