universalism, humanism, romanticism, and racism were much messier and intertwined. This volume brings together researchers in history, linguistics, and literary studies to reflect on these issues in order to explore the varied ways in which human difference was
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In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Jun 2017
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- Introduction
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Book Reviews
On 20th Century Revolutionary Socialism, from Poland to Peru and beyond
Jean-Numa Ducange, Camila Vergara, Talat Ahmed, and Christian Høgsbjerg
’ manner in 1978, with respect to fighting racism, ‘the principles by which we live’ were that ‘the black working class will be in charge, and that the black struggle has an independence, validity, and vitality of its own’ (30). With those principles to
Amanda H. Littauer
sexism and homophobia, and sometimes also racism. For Kim, a black sixteen-year-old, the lesbian community “has showed me what I could have, if I was the right age and the right color and looked right. … It's offered me some things; a sense that there are
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2020
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- Research Article
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- 95–108
Imagining Utopia in an Unfree World
Rick Turner on Morality, Inequality and Existentialism
Mary Ryan
responsible for their environment and thus for their decisions. Under apartheid, the capitalist human model is perpetuated; it endorses ideological racism and fosters competitive attitudes towards people’s relations with one another. In line with Turner
Territorial Sovereignty
A Discussion
Professor Anna Stilz and Interviewed by Dr Christine Hobden
are things to value in being a liberal, but we need to think carefully about how we do that, and always be interrogating the racist roots in early liberal thinkers and the consequential racism implicit in a lot of contemporary liberalism. He argues
Whitewashing History
Pinker’s (Mis)Representation of the Enlightenment and Violence
Philip Dwyer
his agenda. Another paradox is that racism as a pseudoscientific ideology really only came into its own in the nineteenth century, at about the same time as slavery was abolished in Europe. Moreover, this was a period, that is, the decades after 1760
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2018
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- Research Article
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John Gillespie, Kyle Shuttleworth, Nik Farrell Fox, and Mike Neary
political landscape has been marked by the sustained engagement with race and gender discourse. One can hardly open a newspaper or read a social media newsfeed without encountering a story about gender wage gaps, for example, or racism within First World
Kathleen Lennon
racism. 41 Frantz Fanon, ‘The Lived Experience of the Black’, reprinted in Race , ed. Robert Bernasconi (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001), 184–202, here 188. 42 Albert Memmi, The Liberation of the Jew , trans. Judy Hyun (New York: Orion Press, 1966); Michael
In Sartre Studies International
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- 01 Jun 2017
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- Research Article
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- 22–37
Amy Cox Hall, Sergio González Varela, Jessica S.R. Robinson, Peter Weisensel, and David Wills
change, to explain Goncharov's lack of logical or ideological consistency. In a major insight, Bojanowska links Goncharov's racism to a turn in that direction in Russia about 1860, prefigured by the appearance of the word “race” in Russian dictionaries
The “Moral Effect” of Legalized Lawlessness
Violence in Britain’s Twentieth-Century Empire
Caroline Elkins
liberalism and imperialism and, with it, a dominant narrative of universal human emancipation, equality, rights, and the civilizing mission that materialized simultaneously with an underbelly of repression as expressed in evolutionary thought, racism, class
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2018
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- Research Article
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- 78–90