Racism in Europe

The study of modern racism has tended to treat anti-Semitism and anti-black racism as separate and unconnected phenomena. This innovative study argues that a full understanding of the origins and development of racism in Europe after 1870 needs to examine the structure and interrelationships between the two dominant forms of prejudice. Contrary to expectation. anti-black racism was not confined to the colonial maritime nations of western Europe, but pepetrated even the rural societies of central and eastern Europe. Likewise, anti-Semitism could flourish even in the almost total absence of Jews.

MacMaster explores the conditions under which modern political movements, faced with the crisis of modernity, began to draw upon and mobilise the negative stereotypes that, through the development of the mass media, had become almost universal features of popular culture. By weaving together the changing spatial and temporal dimensions of anti-Semitic and anti-black prejudice the study provides a fresh and more global framework for understanding modern racism.

Auteur

NEIL MACMASTER is Senior Lecturer in European Politics at the University of East Anglia, UK.

Contenu

Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Roots of Modern Racism
PART 1: 1870-1914
The Race: Degeneration and Eugenics, 1870-1914
Blackness without Blacks, 1870-1914
The Rise of Political Anti-Semitism, 1870-1914
PART 2: 1914-1945
Anti-Black Racism in an Age of Total War, 1914-1945
Anti-Semitism in the Nazi Era, 1914-1945
PART 3: 1945-2000
Racism in the Age of Labour Immigration, 1945-1974
The 'New Racism' and National Populism
Conclusion
A Short Guide to Further Reading
Index.