How race rose and spread across the globe
Patrick Wolfe is a writer and historian who lives and works in Wurundjeri country near Healesville, Australia. His books include Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology. He has worked at universities in Australia and the United States and is currently in the History Programme at La Trobe University.
'Race is a social construct.' Sure, but what does that mean?
Patrick Wolfe, preeminent scholar of settler colonial studies,
tackles this question with theoretical sophistication and vivid
historical detail. Spanning four continents and four centuries,
Wolfe reveals the operations of race-making in specific historical
processes, in the always contingent struggles over land, labor,
culture, and power. A magnificent work of erudition and
elucidation, Traces of History will change how we talk about the
'social construction of race.'
*Robin D. G. Kelley, UCLA, author of Africa Speaks, America
Answers*
Wolfe brilliantly historicises a comprehensive and global thesis,
concluding that racism is not here to stay. An original and
essential text.
*Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of
the United States*
A unique tour de force. This powerful journey into the past,
covering Australia, North America, Brazil, Europe and Palestine,
will leave you convinced that racism can be defeated, but its
elusive and cynical human attitude has still to be acknowledged and
confronted. No other book will help you do this better.
*Ilan Pappe, University of Exeter, author of The Idea of
Israel*
Although racial conflict and racial injustice have shaped the
modern history of the entire planet, there is little awareness of
how pervasive the legacy of race and racism really is. Traces of
History at long last provides a global, comparative text on race.
Wolfe draws on a wide range of scholars to provide an accessible
text on race and racism as worldwide phenomena. A deeply
researched, long-overdue effort. Highly recommended for course
adoption!
*Howard Winant, University of California, Santa Barbara, author of
Racial Formation in the United States*
As profound as it is unsettling.
*Gershon Shafir, author of Land, Labor and the Origins of the
Israeli–Palestinian Conflict*
Wolfe's work directly addresses the questions "how are races
constructed, under what circumstances, and in whose interests?" A
thorough reckoning with these questions in Traces of History
powerfully suggests that if we understand how race was constructed
in various contexts, then we can work to comprehensively dismantle
those constructions to the benefit of a truly egalitarian
society.
*Socialism and Democracy*
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