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Race Relations Within Western Expansion (Hardcover, New)
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Race Relations Within Western Expansion (Hardcover, New)
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This bold and controversial book takes a hard look at an old
subject-race relations in the Western world. Using history as a
backdrop, the author illustrates how racism and ethnic chauvinism
are, sadly, common. The author warns against the harm of
colorthink-an excessive obsession with race and racism-and explores
the impact of such thinking on race relations today. He gives no
comfort to either racists or more fashionable contemporaries
obsessed with the supposedly unique evils of the Western past.
Racial issues, and misconceptions about race and race relations,
are among the most divisive and confusing features of contemporary
society. Race Relations Within Western Expansion is designed to
provide an overall account of the development of the issues
involved, relating them to global history and putting them squarely
within the framework of the expansion of the Western world, an
expansion that began much earlier than is generally realized, far
back in the Middle Ages. Levine analyzes the reasons for that
expansion and how it took different forms and brought many
different peoples into several different sorts of contact with the
West, and how these contacts, and conceptions about other peoples,
changed, or remained fixed over time. He also shows the impact
within Europe of pseudo-scientific racial ideologies, and
criticizes contemporary misconceptions about the history of
relations between European settlers and native peoples, slavery,
and the age of imperial rule in Asia and Africa. It stresses the
complexity and variety of those relationships rather than
attempting, as is currently fashionable, to pigeonhole more and
more data into fewer and fewer ideological categories. This is a
necessarily controversial book, one that collides with many
cherished beliefs, both traditional and contemporary, and exposes
how bizarre they really are. It acidly exposes both traditional
racist myths, and more recently fashionable postures that often
prove little more factually based.
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