Racism: A Global Reader: A Global Reader

By Stephen Kaufman, Angela Bodino, Thomas Reilly

Book Overview

Racism has existed throughout the world for centuries and has been at the root of innumerable conflicts and human tragedies, including war, genocide, slavery, bigotry, and discrimination. Defined broadly, racism has had many forms and effects, from caste prejudice in India and mass extermination in Tasmania to slavery in the Americas and the Holocaust in Europe. Put simply, racism has been one of the overriding forces in world history for more than a millennium. This book provides a global perspective of racism in its myriad forms. Consisting of twelve parts and fifty-one articles, it focuses on racism worldwide over the past thousand years. It includes three types of articles: original documents, scholarly essays, and journalistic accounts.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765610590
• ISBN13: 9780765610591
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Great Overall View

This book offers a great overall view on racism throughout the world. It doesn't just focus on the holocaust in europe and slavery in the south. The authors have various backgrounds in education (English, History, Anthropology), and combined give this book a wider perspective viewpoint. You get various articles (first and second hand accounts; some historical interpretation), glorious photos, and also guide you should you want to konw more about a particular thing. Highly recommended to anyone wanting a greater understand of our world today and why/how racism will always be a constant problem.