ISBN:
9780429961069
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (448 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed
Parallel Title:
Print version Lauren, Paul Gordon Power and Prejudice : The Politics and Diplomacy of Racial Discrimination, Second Edition
DDC:
305.8/00973
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "The Problem of the Twentieth Century -- 1 The Heavy Burden of the Past -- The Tradition Begins -- Conquest and Captives -- Racial Slavery and Separation -- Ideology, Immigration, and Imperialism -- 2 The Rising Tide -- Ideology of Racial Struggle -- Immigration and Racial Exclusion -- Imperialism and Racial War -- World War I and Racial Tensions -- 3 Racial Equality Requested-and Rejected -- Prelude of Anticipation -- This Great Question of World Policy, -- The Controversy Intensifies -- Rejection and Reaction -- 4 From One War to Another -- The "Highly Combustible" Question -- The League and Racial Issues -- Fascism and National Socialism -- Into the Abyss of War, Racism, and the "Final Solution, -- 5 The Turning Point -- The War as a Mirror -- Wartime Proposals for International Action -- Human Rights, Racial Equality, and the Charter -- The Beginnings with New Questions -- 6 Making a New Beginning -- The United Nations as the Forum and Focal Point -- Setting Standards for Human Rights -- Preventing and Punishing Genocide -- The Impact of the Cold War -- 7 The End of Empire -- Decolonization and Collapsing Empires in Asia -- An Emerging "Third World" and Independence in Africa -- Pursuing Decolonization and Self-Determination -- Challenging Racial Discrimination -- 8 A Decade for Action -- Launching the Decade for Action to Combat Racism -- Attacking the "Hard Core" in Southern Africa -- Convening the World Conference to Combat Racism -- Combating South Africa over Namibia and Apartheid -- 9 Toward the Future -- Resistance to Change -- Standards-and Double Standards -- Speeches and Majority Votes"-or "Iron and Blood"? -- Continuing and Persistent Problems -- Things of the Spirit in the Past and the Future -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography
Abstract:
About the Book and Author -- Index
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