| Description |
xxxix, 422 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Publications of the German Historical Institute |
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Publications of the German Historical Institute.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Dietmar Schirmer -- Pt. 1. Concepts of National Identity and the Symbolic Construction of Nations. 1. National Identity and the Conditions of Tolerance / Carl N. Degler. 2. The Historical Invention and Modern Reinvention of Two National Identities / Frank Trommler. 3. Segmented Politics: Xenophobia, Citizenship, and Political Loyalty in Germany / Gregg Kvistad. 4. The Discoursive Construction of National Stereotypes: Collective Imagination and Racist Concepts in Germany Before World War I / Ute Gerhard. 5. Integration and Fragmentation Discourses: Demanding and Supplying "Identity" in Diverse Societies / Dietmar Schirmer -- Pt. 2. The Social and Cultural Practice of Racism. 6. Race, Class, and Southern Racial Violence / W. Fitzhugh Brundage. 7. Racism and Empire: A Perspective on a New Era of American History / Herbert Shapiro |
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8. Police, African Americans, and Irish Immigrants in the Nation's Capital: A History of Everyday Racism in Civil War Washington / Norbert Finzsch. 9. The Politics of Boycotting: Experiences in Germany and the United States Since 1880 / Ralf Koch. 10. Jews and the German Language: The Concept of Kulturnation and Anti-Semitic Propaganda / Dietz Bering -- Pt. 3. Race, Gender, Body, Biology. 11. Ambiguous Roles: The Racial Factor in American Womanhood / Lois E. Horton. 12. Citizenship Embodied: Racialized Gender and the Construction of Nationhood in the United States / Eileen Boris. 13. Body Matters: Race, Gender, and Perceptions of Physical Ability from Goethe to Weininger / Patricia Vertinsky. 14. A Horse Breeder's Perspective: Scientific Racism in Germany, 1870-1933 / Arnd Kruger. 15. The Thin Line Between Eugenics and Preventive Medicine / Peter Weingart |
| Summary |
In a world of increasingly heterogeneous societies, matters of identity politics and the links between collective identities and national, racial, or ethnic intolerance have assumed dramatic significance - and have stimulated an enormous body of research and literature which rarely transcends the limitations of a national perspective, however, and thus reproduces the limitations of its own topic. Comparative attempts are rare, if not altogether absent. Identity and Intolerance attempts to shift the focus toward comparison in order to show how German and American societies have historically confronted matters of national, racial, and ethnic inclusion and exclusion. This perspective sheds light on the specific links between the cultural construction of nationhood and otherness, the political modes of integration and exclusion, and the social conditions of tolerance and intolerance. The contributors also attempt to integrate the approaches offered by the history of ideas and ideologies, social history, and discourse theory |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Nationalism -- Germany.
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Nationalism -- United States.
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Nativistic movements -- United States.
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Racism -- Germany.
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Racism -- United States.
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Xenophobia -- Germany.
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Xenophobia -- United States.
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| Author |
Finzsch, Norbert.
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Schirmer, Dietmar.
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German Historical Institute (Washington, D.C.)
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| LC no. |
97021386 |
| ISBN |
0521591589 |
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