The lecture will provide an overview over the history of racism from antiquity to the postwar era. It will address the relationship with different historical developments like colonialism, slavery, race science, eugenics, segregation and genocide. The lecture will discuss the exemplary developments in different European and non-European societies. While the perspective of the victims of racist discrimination will be addressed frequently, the course also focusses on the logic of such discrimination. For this, various related issues are going to be raised, like anti-black racism, antisemitism, hatred against Sinti and Roma etc.
A tutorial will be offered as well, which will explore further aspects of the topics discussed in the lecture.
- Trainer/in: Uffa Jensen