The persistence of race : continuity and change in Germany from the Wilhelmine Empire to national socialism /

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Imprint:	New York : Berghahn Books, [2017]. ©2017
Description:	1 online resource (vi, 265 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Racism -- Germany -- History. Race awareness -- Germany. Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Germany -- History. National socialism. Imperialism -- Social aspects. Intellectual life. National socialism. Race awareness. Racism. Germany -- Intellectual life. Germany. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13562419

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Other authors / contributors:	Day, Lara, editor. Haag, Oliver, editor.
ISBN:	9781785335952 1785335952 9781785335945
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 06, 2017).
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Day, Lara. Persistence of race. New York : Berghahn Books, [2017] 9781785335945

Table of Contents:

Categories: continuous, heterogeneous narratives
The 'origin of the Germans'
narratives, academic research, and bad cognitive practice / Ulrich Charpa
Fantasies of mixture
politics of purity: narratives of miscegenation in colonial literature, literary primitivism, and theories of race (1900-1933) / Eva Blome
Blute und Zerfall: 'schematic narrative templates' of decline and fall in volkisch and national socialist racial ideology / Helen Roche
Germany and internal otherness / Ernst Lissauer
Advocating deutschtum against cultural narratives of race / Arne Offermanns
The Jewish CEO and the Lutheran bishop: the impact of German colonial studies on young Jewish and Christian academics' cultural narratives of race / Lukas Bormann
Germany and transnational otherness
Race and ethnicity in German criminology: on crime rates and the Polish population in the Kaiserreich (1871-1914) / Volker Zimmermann
Narratives of race, constructions of community and the demand for female participation in German-nationalist movements in Austria and the German Reich / Johanna Gehmacher
In the crosshairs of degeneracy and race: the Wilhelmine origins of the construction of a national aesthetic and parameters of normalcy in Weimar Germany / Lara Day
Germany and colonial otherness
"The white goddess of the masses:" stardom, whiteness and racial masquerade in Weimar popular culture / Pablo Dominguez Andersen
Idealized Australian aboriginality in German narratives of race / Oliver Haag.

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