Racism in the Modern World: Historical Perspectives on Cultural Transfer and Adaptation

by Simon Wendt

Book Overview

Emphasizing the global nature of racism, this volume brings together historians from various regional specializations to explore this phenomenon from comparative and transnational perspectives. The essays shed light on how racial ideologies and practices developed, changed, and spread in Europe, Asia, the Near East, Australia, and Africa, focusing on processes of transfer, exchange, appropriation, and adaptation. To what extent, for example, were...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178238085X
• ISBN13: 9781782380856
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

They tried…I guess

This book tries really hard to sound academic but is oddly scattered and difficult to follow. It will touch on or mention key concepts that are supposed to lead into the next thought, but without any explanation of those concepts. They just expect the reader to know what they’re talking about. So then why read it? Who is it for? What is the point? Seems it’s a book written for the authors, and only the authors. Don’t waste your money.