Racism in Europe 1870–2000

MacMaster, Neil

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“…While, at the end of the nineteenth century, race had certainly become a guiding principle, a means of classifying humanity, it was rarely associated directly with barbarism. 6 'Race was all', as Disraeli famously stated: racial hierarchy was a fact that legitimated the excesses of colonial rule (which mainly happened out of sight of European eyes) and the keeping of the proletariat in 'their place' (MacMaster, 2001). It explained the growing need for national frontiers and for the social divisions that prevented much cultural intermixing.…”

Section: European Journal Of Social Theory 11(4)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Europe and the Silence about Race

Lentin

2008

European Journal of Social Theory

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This article argues that, despite the efforts to expunge race from the European political sphere, racism continues to define the sociality of Europe. The post-war drive to replace race with other signifiers, such as culture or ethnicity, has done little to overcome the effects of the race idea, one less based on naturalist conceptions of hierarchical humanity, and more on fundamental conceptions of Europeanness and non-Europeanness. The silence about race in Europe allows European states to declare themselves non-racist, or even anti-racist, while at the same time continuing to imply an inherent European superiority, which determines both international relationships and relationships with those seen as 'in but not of Europe' within its domestic spheres. The article concludes by asking what the repercussions of this are in the context of the contemporary discourse on cohesion and integration that replaces multiculturalism as a possible way of living together in a Europe always less homogeneous in reality than it is commonly imagined to be.

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Section: European Journal Of Social Theory 11(4)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Europe and the Silence about Race

Lentin

2008

European Journal of Social Theory

291

136

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“…A feature of racism in Europe today is a shift in the focus of hostility away from colour and race towards more social and cultural characteristics, for instance protecting jobs, concern about welfare benefits, cultural incompatibilities or differences. It is this shift away from the ‘biological’ racism of the industrial and colonial period that warrants the term ‘new racism’ (Macmaster 2001). In the new racism xenophobic attitudes, masculinities and ‘ordinary’ prejudices merge in subtle ways and become easily routinized.…”

Section: Anxiety and Fear Of Othersmentioning

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Fear of Others: Social Exclusion and the European Crisis of Solidarity

Delanty

2008

Soc Policy Adm

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In recent years a major challenge for the EU has emerged around social issues and collective identities. With the emergence of a European political community that has diminished national sovereignty at a time when global forces are also undermining nation states, both Europe and migration become linked as sources of instability. Anxieties about Europe and migration are linked with fears of a clash of civilizations and anxieties about social securities. Social discontent, fuelled by socio-economic changes, has undermined the traditional sources of identity around class and the nation, releasing xenophobic and nationalistic currents. Fear of others and anxieties about the future have emerged as potent social forces in contemporary society. The result is a crisis ofEuropean solidarity, along with a wider crisis of collective purpose. To combat such developments it is essential that the European project gives greater attention to issues of social justice and inclusive forms of social solidarity.

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“…23 Intellectual work along these lines mapped onto and reinforced other contemporaneous processes, including imperialism and nation building. 24 With regard to imperialism, scientific racism reinforced the notion that differences in human types sanctioned the subjugation of "inferior peoples" by white Europeans: "Subjects of Empire were seen as unworthy of self-rule, as backward, as culturally interior, and so forth." 25 This outward orientation had an important domestic concomitant, as assumptions along these lines "embedded themselves in immigration policies, in the treatment of indigenous peoples, in the teaching of history, and in the basic world views of all Western peoples, even those who possessed no formal colonies across the water."…”

Section: Race and National Identity During The First Wave Of Globalizmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Under such a worldview, the "assimilability" of Jews and other suspect races was rendered inconse-quential; no amount of assimilation could alter this essential fact. 148 Thus, the boundary distinguishing Germans from non-Germans during the Weimar period took on a more radical character. The economic crash of 1929, the growing importance of "racial health" among public authorities, and the rejection of democratic and political principles by adherents of organic nationalism thwarted attempts to shift this line outward and helped ensure that the increasingly völkish conception of German nationality that came to define popular and elite opinion in the last days of the Weimar Republic would reach its racist culmination under the Nazis.…”

Section: Germans and Others: Migration And National Identity 1871-1929mentioning

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Building Walls, Bounding Nations: Migration and Exclusion in Canada and Germany, 1870–1939

Triadafilopoulos¹

2004

J Historical Sociology

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Transformations in global capitalism increased rates of international migration at the turn of the twentieth century, a period also marked by the widespread popularity of scientific racism, integral nationalism, and vaunted notions of state sovereignty. This paper considers how the intersection of these factors influenced migration and citizenship policymaking in Canada and Germany. In both cases, migration was harnessed to further economic objectives while groups deemed a threat to national integration because of their putative racial or ethno-national characteristics were excluded. The resultant policies would come to define Canada and Germany's approaches to the migration-membership dilemma for the much of the twentieth century.

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Racism in Europe 1870–2000

Cited by 85 publications

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Europe and the Silence about Race

Europe and the Silence about Race

Fear of Others: Social Exclusion and the European Crisis of Solidarity

Building Walls, Bounding Nations: Migration and Exclusion in Canada and Germany, 1870–1939

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