Emphasizing the global nature of racism, this volume brings together historians from various regional specializations to explore this phenomenon from comparativ

In the post-Civil Rights era, there is a temptation to assume that racism is no longer the pressing social concern in the United States that it once was. The co

Racism has existed throughout the world for centuries and has been at the root of innumerable conflicts and human tragedies, including war, genocide, slavery, b

Are antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why didn't racism appear in Europe before the fourteenth century, and why did it fl

'Why are you making this about race?' This question is repeated daily in public and in the media. Calling someone racist in these times of mounting white suprem