The Persistence of Race (Web PDF) von Lara Day

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Oliver Haag& Lara Day

PART I: CATEGORIES: CONTINUOUS, HETEROGENEOUS NARRATIVES

Chapter 1. The Origin of the Germans. Narratives, Academic Research, and Bad Cognitive Practice
Ulrich Charpa

Chapter 2. Fantasies of Mixture, Politics of Purity: Narratives of Miscegenation in Colonial Literature, Literary Primitivism, and Theories of Race (1900-1933)
Eva Blome

Chapter 3.Blüte und Zerfall: "Schematic Narrative Templates" of Decline and Fall inVölkisch and National Socialist Racial Ideology
Helen Roche

PART II: GERMANY AND INTERNAL OTHERNESS

Chapter 4. Ernst Lissauer: AdvocatingDeutschtum Against Cultural Narratives of Race
Arne Offermanns

Chapter 5. The Jewish CEO and the Lutheran Bishop: The impact of German Colonial Studies on Young Jewish and Christian Academics Cultural Narratives of Race
Lukas Bormann

PART III: GERMANY AND TRANSNATIONAL OTHERNESS

Chapter 6. Race and Ethnicity in German Criminology: On Crime Rates and the Polish Population in theKaiserreich (18711914)
Volker Zimmermann

Chapter 7. Narratives of Race, Constructions of Community, and the Demand for Female Participation in German-Nationalist Movements in Austria and the GermanReich
Johanna Gehmacher

Chapter 8. In the Crosshairs of Degeneracy and Race: The Wilhelmine Origins of the Construction of a National Aesthetic and Parameters of Normalcy in Weimar Germany
Lara Day

PART IV: GERMANY AND COLONIAL OTHERNESS

Chapter 9. "The White Goddess of the Masses": Stardom, Whiteness and Racial Masquerade in Weimar Popular Culture
Pablo Dominguez Andersen

Chapter 10. Idealized Australian Aboriginality in German Narratives of Race
Oliver Haag

Index

Race in 20th-century German history is an inescapable topic, one that has been defined overwhelmingly by the narratives of degeneracy that prefigured the Nuremberg Laws and death camps of the Third Reich. As the contributions to this innovative volume show, however, German society produced a much more complex variety of racial representations over the first part of the century. Here, historians explore the hateful depictions of the Nazi period alongside idealized images of African, Pacific and Australian indigenous peoples, demonstrating both the remarkable fixity race had as an object of fascination for German society as well as the conceptual plasticity it exhibited through several historical eras.

Oliver Haag teaches at the University of Barcelona and is Visiting Professorial Fellow at Queen Marys College, Chennai. He is the co-editor ofNgapartji Ngapartji: Reciprocal Engagement (Australian National University Press) and has  authored a special issue ofNational Identities (Routledge). His scholarship has appeared inContinuum,Aboriginal History,Journal of New Zealand Studies, andNeohelicon, among others.