Racializing humankind : : interdisciplinary perspectives on practices of "race" and racism / / edited by Julian T.D. Gärtner, Malin S. Wilckens.

• Superior document: Beiträge zur Geschichtskultur ; v.43
• TeilnehmendeR: Wilckens, Malin,; Gärtner, Julian T. D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Germany : : Böhlau Verlag,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Beiträge zur Geschichtskultur
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (331 pages)

Table of Contents

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Wilckens, Malin S./Gärtner, Julian T. D.: Introduction - Conceptualizations and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Practices of 'Race' &amp -- Racism -- Premises -- The Interplay of 'Race' and Racism -- Research Perspectives -- Interdisciplinary Perspectives on 'Race' &amp -- Racism -- Practices of Comparing as Immanent Constructive Forces in the Thematic Complex of 'Race' &amp -- Racism -- Practices of (Current) Institutional/Systemic Racism -- The Momentum of 'Race' in the Production of Knowledge -- Narrative and Representational Practices of 'Race' in Popular Media -- 1. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on 'Race' and Racism -- Winkel, Heidemarie: Tracing (Theories of) Racism in Sociological Thinking: A Postcolonial Approach -- 1. Racism in Sociology's Foundation Phase -- 2. Sociology's Colonial Heritage: The Colonial Episteme -- 3. Decolonization of Sociological Thinking -- 4. Résumé -- Roth, Julia: Tracing Racism: Insights from Postcolonial Studies, Global History, and the Law - American Studies -- Black Interventions and the Foundation of Black Studies and Critical Race Theory in the US -- Academic Disciplines as Colonizing and Racializing Machines -- Area Studies and American Studies Programs Abroad: Export Expertise and Exceptionalism -- Anti-Colonial Critiques, Decolonial Thinking and the German ''Sonderweg'' -- Re-Framing American Studies: Towards a Relational Entanglement Perspective -- 2. Practices of Comparing as Immanent Constructive Forces in the Thematic Complex of 'Race' &amp -- Racism -- Becker, Andreas: Climate or Biology? Differences in the Description of the Sami Body in European Ethnographic Discourses -- Practices of Comparing and the 'Knowledge of Comparing' -- The Sami in the Swedish Empire -- The Sami Body in Early Modern Europe: Environmentalism and Mutability.

Linnaeus and his Lapland Journey: The Sami Body in the Eyes of a Natural Historian -- Conclusion -- Wilckens, Malin S.: Racializing, Collecting and Comparing Skulls.. Johann Friedrich Blumenbach's and Anders Retzius' Practices of Ordering Humankind -- The Inextricable Link between 'Race' and Comparing -- Blumenbach's Practices of 'Collecting' -- Blumenbach's Practices of Comparing Skulls - Aestheticization and Symmetry -- Anders Retzius' 'Collecting' of Skulls -- Comparing Long and Short Skulls -- Comparing the Sami as the Significant ''Other'' -- 'Race' and Practices of Comparing - The Interconnectedness of Difference and Sameness -- Gärtner, Julian T. D.: A Sentimental Science: Comparisons to Plants and Slavery in George Sand's Indiana -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pale Flowers, or Society as Greenhouse -- 3. A Sentimental Science: Love as Natural History -- 4. Torturous Love: Love Affairs as Slavery -- 5. Imagined Slavery: Comparing as an Abolitionist Counter-Practice -- 6. Conclusion -- 3. Practices of (Current) Institutional/Systemic Racism -- Brown, Mark B.: White Identity Politics in the United States -- Introduction -- White Supremacy and White Privilege -- Conservative White Identity Politics -- Liberal White Antiracism -- Radical White Identity Politics -- Conclusion -- Ragunathan, Sheila: Institutional Racism and Classroom Dynamics in German Higher Education -- Introduction -- Three Focal Points in the Discussion on Institutional Racism in Higher Education -- Higher Education Classroom Experiences and Dynamics -- (Im)Possibility of Anti-Racist Teaching -- Fiocchi, João: No Negro Citizens: Slavery and Citizenship in Comparative Perspective -- Introduction -- A Silenced History of State Formation: Racial Colonialism and Slavery -- ''No Negro, whether slave or free, could ever be considered a citizen''.

Territorial Movement under Racial Capitalism -- Conclusion -- 4. The Momentum of 'Race' in the Production of Knowledge -- Hoffarth, Christian: Like Marvels, like Monsters: Experiences of Otherness and the Emergence of Racial Thought in Medieval European Travel Writing -- Introduction -- The Idea of Race and Medieval Principles of Human Differentiation -- Experiences of Otherness -- Conclusion -- Vartija, Devin J.: Natural Equality and Racial Inequality: An Enlightenment Paradox? -- The Making of the ''Modern'' Idea of Race -- Buffon and the Natural History of Humanity -- Maupertuis, Diderot, and the Consequences of Materialism -- Conclusion -- Bitter-Smirnov, Sophie: Arguing against Monogenism: Strategies in Polygenist Argumentation against the Unity of Humankind -- Introduction -- Background -- Countering Monogenism -- Georg Forster: Rejecting Buffon's Species Concept -- Samuel George Morton: Overturning the Species Concept of Buffon -- A Mulatto is a Hybrid: Josiah C. Nott -- Paul Broca: Good Crossings and Bad Crossings -- Conclusion -- 5. Narrative and Representational Practices of 'Race' in Popular Media -- Smith, L. Katherine: (De)constructing Race and Racism at the Ends of the Earth.. The Hollow Earth and Open Polar Sea Theories in Nineteenth Century American Literature -- Symzonia: A Voyage of Discovery (1820) -- Mizora: A Prophecy (1880-1) -- The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896) -- Conclusion -- De Boodt, Robrecht: The Green Heart of Africa: Literary Knowledge of Scientific Racism -- Science, Colonial Literature and the Congo -- ''The Colonial in Literature'': Attempting to Establish Epistemic Authority -- Tropical Medicine, Eugenics and Anthropology as Vectors of 'Racial Knowledge' -- Cultural Practice as Alleged Proof of Racial Difference -- Interracial Relationships, Offspring and other Racial Subversions to Colonial Rule.

An 'Authoritative' Patchwork of 'Scientific' Racial Colonial Knowledge -- Njanjo, Burrhus: Articulations of Racism in Vénus Noire (2010) and A United Kingdom (2016) -- 1. Introduction: On the Mediality of Racism in Cinema -- 2. Articulating Scientific Racism in Vénus Noire -- 3. Representing ''Cultural Racism'' in A United Kingdom -- 4. Conclusion -- Baßenhoff, Lisa: Presenting White.. Scientific Conferences and the Practice of Presentation -- (Critical) Whiteness Studies -- Theories of Practice and Race -- Presentation as Performance -- From Writing Culture to Presentation Culture -- Being Involved -- List of Authors.