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The Spectre of Race - How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy (Hardcover)
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The Spectre of Race - How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy (Hardcover)
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How racism and discrimination have been central to democracies from
the classical period to today As right-wing nationalism and
authoritarian populism gain momentum across the world, liberals,
and even some conservatives, worry that democratic principles are
under threat. In The Spectre of Race, Michael Hanchard argues that
the current rise in xenophobia and racist rhetoric is nothing new
and that exclusionary policies have always been central to
democratic practices since their beginnings in classical times.
Contending that democracy has never been for all people, Hanchard
discusses how marginalization is reinforced in modern politics, and
why these contradictions need to be fully examined if the dynamics
of democracy are to be truly understood. Hanchard identifies
continuities of discriminatory citizenship from classical Athens to
the present and looks at how democratic institutions have promoted
undemocratic ideas and practices. The longest-standing modern
democracies -France, Britain, and the United States-profited from
slave labor, empire, and colonialism, much like their Athenian
predecessor. Hanchard follows these patterns through the
Enlightenment and to the states and political thinkers of the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and he examines how early
political scientists, including Woodrow Wilson and his
contemporaries, devised what Hanchard has characterized as "racial
regimes" to maintain the political and economic privileges of
dominant groups at the expense of subordinated ones. Exploring how
democracies reconcile political inequality and equality, Hanchard
debates the thorny question of the conditions under which
democracies have created and maintained barriers to political
membership. Showing the ways that race, gender, nationality, and
other criteria have determined a person's status in political life,
The Spectre ofRace offers important historical context for how
democracy generates political difference and inequality.
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