Mapping Race: Historicizing the History of the Color-Line

This study examines scholarship about the global color-line. It unfolds in two sections. The first traces how understandings of race and racism were encoded within university environments in the mid-twentieth century. The second shows how this epistemology influenced early academic comparisons of th...

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Main Author: Irwin, Ryan M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2010
In: History compass
Year: 2010, Volume: 8, Issue: 9, Pages: 984-999
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Summary:This study examines scholarship about the global color-line. It unfolds in two sections. The first traces how understandings of race and racism were encoded within university environments in the mid-twentieth century. The second shows how this epistemology influenced early academic comparisons of the United States and South Africa in the 1980s and why the literature diversified in the post-apartheid era.
ISSN:1478-0542
Contains:Enthalten in: History compass
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2010.00731.x