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.