Racism

Racism has existed throughout the world for centuries and has been at the root of innumerable conflicts and human tragedies, including war, genocide, slavery, bigotry, and discrimination. Defined broadly, racism has had many forms and effects, from caste prejudice in India and mass extermination in Tasmania to slavery in the Americas and the Holocaust in Europe. Put simply, racism has been one of the overriding forces in world history for more than a millennium. This book provides a global perspective of racism in its myriad forms. Consisting of twelve parts and fifty-one articles, it focuses on racism worldwide over the past thousand years. It includes three types of articles: original documents, scholarly essays, and journalistic accounts.

Kevin Reilly is Professor of History at Raritan Valley College. He has also taught at Rutgers, Columbia, and Princeton Universities. He is the founding president of the World History Association and the author of numerous college texts and readers in world history, including The West and the World (1980), Readings in World Civilization (1995), and Worlds of History (2000). Stephen Kaufman, Ph.D., is Professor of Anthropology at Raritan Valley College. He has taught at Queens and York Colleges at the City University of New York before coming to Raritan Valley. He is the founding director of the college's Holocaust and Genocide Studies Institute and still serves as a member of its advisory board. On a recent sabbatical, Dr. Kaufman studied at Y ad Vashem in Israel and completed his work on the fate of blacks under the Nazi regime. Angela Bodino is a professor of English with a background in literature and composition. She is an adjunct instructor at the Rutgers University Graduate School of Education, and a codirector of the National Writing Project site at Rutgers University. In 1998, she was named the New Jersey Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Leam­ing, an award given by the national organization of the Council for the Ad­vancement and Support of Education.