Since it first appeared, Power and Prejudice has been hailed as a bold, pioneering work dealing with one of the central and most controversial issues of our time, the relationship between racial prejudice and global conflict. Powerfully written and based on documents from archives on several continents, this award-winning book convincingly demonstrates that the racial issue, or what W.E.B. Du Bois called the problem of the twentieth century, has profoundly influenced most major developments in international politics and diplomacy. Lauren begins with a thought-provoking discussion of the heavy burden of history's pattern of conquest and slavery wherein skin colour identified master and slave, conqueror and conquered. He then examines bitter twentieth-century conflicts over race, including immigration exclusion and the Yellow Peril, the Final Solution of the Holocaust, decolonization, the impact of the Cold War on the civil rights movement, and the global struggle against racial prejudice. In this new edition, Lauren adds dimensions about Asia, Latin America, and the Pacific, exploring the racial dimensions of immigration exclusion and warfare. He contributes significant new material about international issues regarding indigenous peoples around the world, including self-determination, sovereignty, and discrimination. And finally, he examines the dramatic events surrounding the end of apartheid in South Africa. Eloquent, provocative, and informed by first-rate scholarship, the insights of this highly original work will appeal to general readers as well as to students and scholars from a broad range of disciplines.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc
ISBN-13
9780813321431
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94981302
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Economic Sociology
Author
Paul Gordon Lauren
Publication Name
Power and Prejudice: the Politics and Diplomacy of Racial Discrimination, Second Edition
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Social Sciences, Government, Anthropology
Publication Year
1996
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
447 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
104g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Paul Gordon Lauren
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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