Globalizing race : antisemitism and empire in French and European culture / Dorian Bell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bell, Dorian, author.

Series:

FlashPoints (Evanston, Ill.)

FlashPoints

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antisemitism--France--History--19th century.

Antisemitism.

Antisemitism--France--History--20th century.

Antisemitism--Political aspects--France.

France--Ethnic relations.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 368 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Globalizing Raceexplores how intersections between French antisemitism and imperialism shaped the development of European racial thought. Ranging from the African misadventures of the antisemitic Marquis de Morès to the Parisian novels and newspapers of late nineteenth-century professional antisemites, Dorian Bell argues that France's colonial expansion helped antisemitism take its modern, racializing form-and that, conversely, antisemitism influenced the elaboration of the imperial project itself.Globalizing Raceradiates from France to place authors like Guy de Maupassant and Émile Zola into sustained relation with thinkers from across the ideological spectrum, including Hannah Arendt, Friedrich Nietzsche, Frantz Fanon, Karl Marx, Max Horkheimer, and Theodor Adorno. Engaging with what has been called the "spatial turn" in social theory, the book offers new tools for thinking about how racisms interact across space and time. Among these is what Bell callsracial scalarity.Race, Bell argues, did not just become globalized when European racism and antisemitism accompanied imperial penetration into the farthest reaches of the world. Rather, race became most thoroughly global as a method for constructing and negotiating the different scales (national, global, etc.) necessary for the development of imperial capitalism.As France, Europe, and the world confront a rising tide of Islamophobia,Globalizing Racealso brings into fascinating focus how present-day French responses to Muslim antisemitism hark back to older, problematic modes of representing the European colonial periphery.

Contents:

Introduction: Between relationality and scalarity

The labor of superfluity: Hannah Arendt, empire, and the Jews

Colonial conspiracies: racializing Jews in the era of empire

Men on horseback (1): the Marquis de Mores, nationalism, and imperial space-time

Men on horseback (2): Melchior de Vogue, imperial regeneration, and the dialectic of determinism

Bigger pictures: anti-anti-Semitism and the politics of scale.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Description based on print record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780810136908

0810136902

OCLC:

1027051756