The Persistence of Race : Continuity and Change in Germany From the Wilhelmine Empire to National Socialism

Race In 20th-century German History Is An Inescapable Topic, One That Has Been Defined Overwhelmingly By The Narratives Of Degeneracy That Prefigured The Nuremberg Laws And Death Camps Of The Third Reich. As The Contributions To This Innovative Volume Show, However, German Society Produced A Much More Complex Variety Of Racial Representations Over The First Part Of The Century. Here, Historians Explore The Hateful Depictions Of The Nazi Period Alongside Idealized Images Of African, Pacific And Australian Indigenous Peoples, Demonstrating Both The Remarkable Fixity Race Had As An Object Of Fascination For German Society As Well As The Conceptual Plasticity It Exhibited Through Several Historical Eras. Categories: Continuous, Heterogeneous Narratives -- The 'origin Of The Germans' -- Narratives, Academic Research, And Bad Cognitive Practice / Ulrich Charpa -- Fantasies Of Mixture -- Politics Of Purity: Narratives Of Miscegenation In Colonial Literature, Literary Primitivism, And Theories Of Race (1900-1933) / Eva Blome -- Blute Und Zerfall: 'schematic Narrative Templates' Of Decline And Fall In Volkisch And National Socialist Racial Ideology / Helen Roche -- Germany And Internal Otherness / Ernst Lissauer -- Advocating Deutschtum Against Cultural Narratives Of Race / Arne Offermanns -- The Jewish Ceo And The Lutheran Bishop: The Impact Of German Colonial Studies On Young Jewish And Christian Academics' Cultural Narratives Of Race / Lukas Bormann -- Germany And Transnational Otherness -- Race And Ethnicity In German Criminology: On Crime Rates And The Polish Population In The Kaiserreich (1871-1914) / Volker Zimmermann -- Narratives Of Race, Constructions Of Community And The Demand For Female Participation In German-nationalist Movements In Austria And The German Reich / Johanna Gehmacher -- In The Crosshairs Of Degeneracy And Race: The Wilhelmine Origins Of The Construction Of A National Aesthetic And Parameters Of Normalcy In Weimar Germany / Lara Day -- Germany And Colonial Otherness -- The White Goddess Of The Masses: Stardom, Whiteness And Racial Masquerade In Weimar Popular Culture / Pablo Dominguez Andersen -- Idealized Australian Aboriginality In German Narratives Of Race / Oliver Haag. Edited By Lara Day And Oliver Haag. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. "Contents" -- "List of Figures" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Introduction" -- "Part I â#x80;#x94; Categories: Continuous, Heterogeneous Narratives" -- "Chapter 1 â#x80;#x94; The "Origin of the Germans": Narratives, Academic Research, and Bad Cognitive Practice" -- "Chapter 2 â#x80;#x94; Fantasies of Mixture, Politics of Purity: Narratives of Miscegenation in Colonial Literature, Literary Primitivism, and Theories of Race (1960-1933)" -- "Chapter 3 â#x80;#x94; BlÃ1⁄4te und Zerfall: "Schematic Narrative Templates" of Decline and Fall in Völkisch and National Socialist Racial Ideology" -- "Part II â#x80;#x94; Germany and Internal Otherness" -- "Chapter 4 â#x80;#x94; Ernst Lissauer: Advocating Deutschtum Against Cultural Narratives of Race" -- "Chapter 5 â#x80;#x94; The Jewish CEO and the Lutheran Bishop: The Impact of German Colonial Studies on Young Jewish and Christian Academics' Cultural Narratives of Race" -- "Part III â#x80;#x94; Germany and Transnational Otherness" -- "Chapter 6 â#x80;#x94; Race and Ethnicity in German Criminology: On Crime Rates and the Polish Population in the Kaiserreich (1871-1914)" -- "Chapter 7 â#x80;#x94; Narratives of Race, Constructions of Community, and the Demand for Female Participation in German-Nationalist Movements in Austria and the German Reich" -- "Chapter 8 â#x80;#x94; In the Crosshairs of Degeneracy and Race: The Wilhelmine Origins of the Construction of a National Aesthetic and Parameters of Normalcy in Weimar Germany" -- "Part IV â#x80;#x94; Germany and Colonial Otherness" -- "Chapter 9 â#x80;#x94; "The White Goddess of the Masses": Stardom, Whiteness, and Racial Masquerade in Weimar Popular Culture" -- "Chapter 10 â#x80;#x94; Idealized Australian Aboriginality in German Narratives of Race Contents List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction I. CATEGORIES: CONTINUOUS, HETEROGENEOUS NARRATIVES 1. The “Origin of the Germans”: Narratives, Academic Research, and Bad Cognitive Practice 2. Fantasies of Mixture, Politics of Purity: Narratives of Miscegenation in Colonial Literature, Literary Primitivism, and Theories of Race (1900–1933) 3. Blüte und Zerfall: “Schematic Narrative Templates” of Decline and Fall in Völkisch and National Socialist Racial Ideology II. GERMANY AND INTERNAL OTHERNESS 4. Ernst Lissauer: Advocating Deutschtum Against Cultural Narratives of Race 5. The Jewish CEO and the Lutheran Bishop: The Impact of German Colonial Studies on Young Jewish and Christian Academics’ Cultural Narratives of Race III. GERMANY AND TRANSNATIONAL OTHERNESS 6. Race and Ethnicity in German Criminology: On Crime Rates and the Polish Population in the Kaiserreich (1871–1914) 7. Narratives of Race, Constructions of Community, and the Demand for Female Participation in German-Nationalist Movements in Austria and the German Reich 8. In the Crosshairs of Degeneracy and Race: The Wilhelmine Origins of the Construction of a National Aesthetic and Parameters of Normalcy in Weimar Germany IV. GERMANY AND COLONIAL OTHERNESS 9. “The White Goddess of the Masses”: Stardom, Whiteness, and Racial Masquerade in Weimar Popular Culture 10. Idealized Australian Aboriginality in German Narratives of Race Index This volume explores the hateful depictions of the Nazi era alongside Wilhelmine images of indigenous peoples, revealing race as on object of fascination for Germans across several eras.