How race rose and spread across the globe
Traces
of History presents a new
approach to race and to comparative colonial studies. Bringing a
historical perspective to bear on the regimes of race that colonizers
have sought to impose on Aboriginal people in Australia, on Blacks
and Native Americans in the United States, on Ashkenazi Jews in
Western Europe, on Arab Jews in Israel/Palestine, and on people of
African descent in Brazil, this book shows how race marks and
reproduces the different relationships of inequality into which
Europeans have coopted subaltern populations: territorial
dispossession, enslavement, confinement, assimilation, and removal.
Charting
the different modes of domination that engender specific regimes of
race and the strategies of anti-colonial resistance they entail, the
book powerfully argues for cross-racial solidarities that respect
these historical differences.