Conditions of intolerance: racism and the construction of social reality

Der vorliegende Beitrag geht der Frage nach, ob eine mehr oder weniger rassistische Traditionslinie zwischen dem Antisemitismus nationalsozialistischer Prägung und den rechtsradikalen Tendenzen im wiedervereinigten Deutschland existiert. Der Autor versucht diese Frage durch einen internationalen bzw. -kulturellen Vergleich zwischen amerikanischem und deutschem Nationalismus, Rassismus und Fremdenfeindlichkeit zu beantworten. Verglichen werden folgende Themenkomplexe und Entwicklungslinien: (1) Die frühe Phase des Nationalismus (1812 - 1850); (2) Seine Expansion und Manifestation in der Zeit von 1848 bis 1898; (3) Der 'wissenschaftliche' Rassismus und seine internationale Ausbreitung; (4) Geschlecht und Rasse: (5) Identität und Marginalisierung; (6) Politische Parteien und der rassistisch/fremdenfeindliche Impuls. Der abschließende, theoretische Teil diskutiert die 'falsche' Dichotomie zwischen Sozialgeschichte und Diskursanalyse in Kontext der inhaltlichen Fragestellung. (ICE)'The most frightening side-effects of unification for some of the Germans and for most of the awed foreign spectators was the resurgence of open German racism. Was there a racist tradition in Germany that linked 1933 with 1989? Was the womb still fertile from which fascism had crept? Or are these incidents only pointing at a long-term tendency in German history that has been directed towards exclusion of 'foreigners', immigrants and non-christians going back to the early nineteenth century?- The first part of this paper describes the different occasions in Germany and the United States. The second part proposes six areas of comparison one could look at in an attempt to correlate American and German concepts of racism, nationalism and xenophobia: (1) The early period of nationalism (1812-1850); (2) Expansion and Manifest Destiny (1848-1898); (3) Scientific racism and internal colonization (1870-1933); (4) Gender and Race; (5) Identity and marginalization; (6) Political parties and the racist/xenophobic impulse.- The third part discusses the 'false' dichotomization of social history versus discourse analysis. Social history is discourse analysis with non-discoursive practises left in.' (author's abstract

Caroline Rolland-Diamond, Black America. Une Histoire des luttes pour l’égalité et la justice

A couple of years back I taught American History at the Université Bordeaux III (Michel Montaigne) as a visiting professor. Among other things I taught a lecture class on African American History in French (not an easy task for someone who is used to speaking and writing in English) and I realized that there was, at the time, no comprehensive French text on the subject matter at hand. As a consequence, I had to translate my own, co-authored book into a stumbling French. In 2013, this lacuna w..