The Persistence of Race : : Continuity and Change in Germany from the Wilhelmine Empire to National Socialism / / ed. by Lara Day, Oliver Haag.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
• MitwirkendeR: Blome, Eva,; Bormann, Lukas,; Charpa, Ulrich,; Day, Lara,; Dominguez Andersen, Pablo,; Gehmacher, Johanna,; Haag, Oliver,; Offermanns, Arne,; Roche, Helen,; Zimmermann, Volker,
• HerausgeberIn: Day, Lara,; Haag, Oliver,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (274 p.)

Race in 20th-century German history is an inescapable topic, one that has been defined overwhelmingly by the narratives of degeneracy that prefigured the Nuremberg Laws and death camps of the Third Reich. As the contributions to this innovative volume show, however, German society produced a much more complex variety of racial representations over the first part of the century. Here, historians explore the hateful depictions of the Nazi period alongside idealized images of African, Pacific and Australian indigenous peoples, demonstrating both the remarkable fixity race had as an object of fascination for German society as well as the conceptual plasticity it exhibited through several historical eras.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. CATEGORIES: CONTINUOUS, HETEROGENEOUS NARRATIVES -- 1. The “Origin of the Germans”: Narratives, Academic Research, and Bad Cognitive Practice -- 2. Fantasies of Mixture, Politics of Purity: Narratives of Miscegenation in Colonial Literature, Literary Primitivism, and Theories of Race (1900–1933) -- 3. Blüte und Zerfall: “Schematic Narrative Templates” of Decline and Fall in Völkisch and National Socialist Racial Ideology -- II. GERMANY AND INTERNAL OTHERNESS -- 4. Ernst Lissauer: Advocating Deutschtum Against Cultural Narratives of Race -- 5. The Jewish CEO and the Lutheran Bishop: The Impact of German Colonial Studies on Young Jewish and Christian Academics’ Cultural Narratives of Race -- III. GERMANY AND TRANSNATIONAL OTHERNESS -- 6. Race and Ethnicity in German Criminology: On Crime Rates and the Polish Population in the Kaiserreich (1871–1914) -- 7. Narratives of Race, Constructions of Community, and the Demand for Female Participation in German-Nationalist Movements in Austria and the German Reich -- 8. In the Crosshairs of Degeneracy and Race: The Wilhelmine Origins of the Construction of a National Aesthetic and Parameters of Normalcy in Weimar Germany -- IV. GERMANY AND COLONIAL OTHERNESS -- 9. “The White Goddess of the Masses”: Stardom, Whiteness, and Racial Masquerade in Weimar Popular Culture -- 10. Idealized Australian Aboriginality in German Narratives of Race -- Index