Antón Pérez: Manuel Sánchez Mármol's Novel of Race, War, and Passion

This paper argues that the idea of global peace in early twentieth-century liberal international order was sutured together by the threat of race war. This understanding of racial peace was institutionalized in the League of Nations mandate system through its philosophical architect: Jan Smuts. I argue that the League figured in Smuts’s thought as the culmination of the creative advance of the universe: white internationalist unification and settler colonialism was the cosmological destiny of humanity that enabled a racial peace. In Smuts’s imaginary, the twin prospect of race war and miscegenation serves as the dark underside that both necessitates and threatens to undo this project. By reframing the problem of race war through his metaphysics, Smuts resolves the challenge posed by race war by institutionalizing indirect rule and segregation as a project of pacification that ensured that settlement and the creative advance of the cosmos could proceed.

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Global Race War

10.1093/oso/9780197535622.001.0001 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Alexander D. Barder

Keyword(s):

Haitian Revolution ◽

Racial Violence ◽

Global Politics ◽

Racial Hierarchy ◽

Yellow Peril ◽

Early Twenty ◽

Independent States ◽

The Haitian Revolution ◽

Global Imaginary ◽

Race War

Global Race War: International Politics and Racial Hierarchy explores the historical connections between race and violence from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. Barder shows how beginning with the Haitian Revolution and nineteenth century settler colonialism the development of the very idea of global order was based on racial hierarchy. The intensification of racial violence happened when the global racial hierarchy appeared to be in crisis. By the first half of the twentieth century, ideas about race war come to fuse themselves with state genocidal projects to eliminate internal and external enemy races. Global processes of racialization did not end with the Second World War and with the discrediting of scientific racism, the decolonization of the global South and the expansion of the state-system to newly independent states; rather it continued in different forms as the racialization of cultural or civilizational attributes that then resulted in further racial violence. From fears about the “Yellow Peril,” the “Clash of Civilization,” or, more recently, the “Great Replacement,” the global imaginary is constituted by ideas about racial difference. Examining global politics in terms of race and racial violence reveals a different spatial topology across domestic and global politics. Global histories of racial hierarchy and violence have important implications for understanding the continued salience of race within Western polities. The book revisits two centuries of international history to show the important consequences of a global racial imaginary that continues to reverberate across time and space.

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Breathe into Believing

Hypatia ◽

10.1017/hyp.2021.42 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-11

Author(s):

LeConté J. Dill

Keyword(s):

Daily Lives ◽

Group I ◽

Online Searches ◽

Doctoral Dissertations ◽

Race War

This begins before 1896. This begins before Arkansas. But “this can't be right grandmother. who are our Ancestors! she said, shit gal, i don't know” (Bridgforth 2012). One of my ancestors walks toward me. She be Gertrude. Gertrude Grant. I have no pictures of her. I have no living memories of her. Yet I remember. Her. My Nana's mama, born around 1890 in the lumber town of Canfield in southern Arkansas. Canfield, Arkansas, 1896 We're children Babies really when the fires start A mob is always ready to take our wages Run us away Always ready to lynch us When a volley of shots be my lullabies I won't live to see 36 I learn about the Canfield Race War of 1896 through online searches, old newspaper clippings, doctoral dissertations. Great-Grandma Gertrude would have been around six when the rioting happened, when white laborers became jealous of Black laborers and tried to push them, beat them, burn them out of town. Free library access to census documents and land deeds tells me that Gertrude's daddy, James W. Grant, purchased eighty acres of land in Canfield on February 1, 1893, perhaps thanks to the Southern Homestead Act, which made millions of acres of land available to homesteaders, including migrating and free Negroes. James and his wife, Susie A. Lewis, raised their children on their land in Canfield. How did the riots affect them, their land, their kin, their safety, their daily lives? I ask all the questions. I was raised with the permission to ask all the questions. I ask all the questions before I'm trained in the academy to ask all the questions.

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Reviews: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS RONALD SEGAL. The Race War. London, Janathan Cape, 1966. Pp. 416. Price 45s

International Studies ◽

10.1177/002088176801000307 ◽

1968 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 384-385

Author(s):

Tarun C. Bose

Keyword(s):

International Relations ◽

Race War

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Movies Without Mercy: Race, War, and Images of Japanese People in American Films, 1942-1945

Journal of American-East Asian Relations ◽

10.1163/187656111x577465 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

pp. 11-36

Author(s):

Wang Xiaofei

Keyword(s):

International Relations ◽

Physical Characteristics ◽

Power Struggle ◽

Japanese People ◽

Governmental Agencies ◽

American Films ◽

Production Code ◽

Complex Approach ◽

Film Studios ◽

Race War

AbstractHistorian John Dower titles his book War Without Mercy. Similarly, wartime Hollywood showed no mercy when depicting Japanese. Negative portrayals were often based on actual atrocities, but it was racism to demonize an entire people and culture. The story of how politics in Hollywood and Washington, the conduct of war, and international relations shaped and changed film racism involves a much more complex approach than has been practiced to date. Using archives of film studios, the Production Code Administration (PCA), and governmental agencies such as the Office of War Information (OWI), this article traces the power struggle among them and a new racism which emerged after 1941. Filmmakers now projected favorable images of Chinese to distinguish their new allies from the Japanese enemy. OWI struggled to promote a liberal agenda which saw the enemy as world fascism, not the Japanese people. The article analyzes more than two dozen films to trace the complications in three types of wartime screen racism: (1) "Verbal racism," such as derogating words like "Jap." (2) "Physical racism," which dramatized and ridiculed physical characteristics of Japanese people. (3) "Psychological racism," which saw all Japanese people as cruel and treacherous.

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