Race in the modern world : an intellectual history / edited by Sarah C. Dunstan, Ian Stewart

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dunstan, Sarah C., editor.

Stewart, Ian B., 1990- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race--History.

Race.

Racism--History.

Racism.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Summary:

"Few ideas have had a more powerful effect on the modern world than that of race, yet few ideas are less understood. Bringing together contributions from leading international scholars, this volume traces the crystallisation of this concept in western intellectual discourse in the eighteenth century, its rapid rise to prominence as a governing concept across the world from the mid-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries, and its legacy from the Cold War and era of decolonisation to the present. Through multiple case studies, the chapters provide new angles on more familiar contexts, such as Enlightenment Europe, while introducing related themes in areas including India and New Zealand. Race in the Modern World offers a comparative understanding of the multiplicity of ways that race has been conceptualised, how these ideas changed over time, and how the world of ideas shapes the world in which we live"-- Cambridge Core

Contents:

Racialising the world : civilisation, knowledge, and the crystallisation of race in European thought / Ian Stewart

The ‘first’ white death : royalism, revolutionary Haiti, and the (un)doing of race / Jesu’s Guillermo Ruiz

From Immanuel Kant to Heinrich Claß : concepts of race in Germany during the long nineteenth century / Jens-Uwe Guettel

Emancipatory sociology and ‘the problem’ of race relations : the First Universal Races Congress in 1911 London / Alice L. Conklin

Race and caste in Indian political thought / Vikram Visana

‘The intellectual equipment of mankind’ : UNESCO, scientific authority, and the problem of race, 1950-1967 / Sarah C. Dunstan

Rastafari and the ‘spectre of racialism’, 1950-1961 / Monique Bedasse

Subverting the settler colonial binary? : race, culture, power in Aotearoa New Zealand / Miranda Johnson

Race and blackness in the United States, 1968-2008 / Robert Greene II

Afterword : the ‘indefinite present’ / Alejandro de la Fuente

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed July 29, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Race in the modern world

ISBN:

9781009717960

1009717960

9781009717991

1009717995

OCLC:

1596675014

Publisher Number:

CIPO000392249

CIPO000406801

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license