Perceptions of the history of race relations: Racial group differences and consequences for racism

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Schmitt ◽  
Nia Phillips ◽  
Tracie Stewart ◽  
Nyla Branscombe
Keyword(s):  
Race Relations ◽  
Racial Group ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Race

The Secret City: A History of Race Relations in the Nation's Capital.

1967 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 593
Author(s):  
Robert H. Bremner ◽  
Constance McLaughlin Green
Keyword(s):  
Race Relations ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Race

scholarly journals Corners, Tables, Lines

Nuncius ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 517-531
Author(s):  
Staffan Müller-Wille
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
Combinatorial Analysis ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
Human Diversity ◽  
Administrative Practices ◽  
History Of ◽  
Diagrammatic Representations ◽  
History Of Race

Abstract The modern concept of race is usually traced back to proponents of a “natural history of mankind” in the European Enlightenment. Starting from allegorical representations of the four continents in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and the eighteenth-century visual genre of castas paintings, I suggest that modern conceptions of race were significantly shaped by diagrammatic representations of human diversity that allowed for tabulation of data, combinatorial analysis, and quantification, and hence functioned as “tools to think with.” Accounting for racial ancestry in terms of “proportions of blood” not only became a preoccupation of scholars as a consequence, but also came to underwrite administrative practices and popular discourses. To contribute to a better understanding of the history of race relations, historians of the race concept need to pay more attention to these diagrammatic aspects of the concept.

White Blindfolds and Black Armbands: The Uses of Whiteness Theory for Reading Australian Cultural Production

1999 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-49
Author(s):  
Carole Ferrier
Keyword(s):  
Race Relations ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
History Of ◽  
Whiteness Theory ◽  
History Of Race

Analyses or descriptions of the history of race relations (and cultural production) in what has been called Australia for about a hundred years, have frequently been informed by two orientations that might be simply categorised as the white blindfold and the black armband positions. In many cases, these two mindsets can be observed in other Western cultures although the interaction between them, and the society around them, gets played out differently in particular places at particular times.

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