Race war and the global racial imaginary -- Interpreting the Haitian Revolution : global racial hierarchy -- Scientific racism, social Darwinism and global racial order -- Global racial violence : settler colonialism and the American Indian wars -- Race annihilation, war and the global imperial order : the Armenian Genocide of 1915 -- Nazi grand strategy, genocide and dismantlement of the state-system, 1941-1945 -- The "Yellow Peril" and the Asia-Pacific War -- Racial violence in the Global South : Vietnam and the crisis of the American liberal order -- Civilizational conflict as race war : from the 1990s to the Global War on Terror -- The "Great Replacement" : racial war in the twenty-first century.
Summary:
"Race War and the Global Imaginary, 1800-Present explores the historical connections between race and violence from the nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. Barder shows how beginning with the Haitian Revolution and nineteenth century settler colonialism the development of the very idea of global order was based on racial hierarchy. The intensification of racial violence happened when the global racial hierarchy appeared to be in crisis. By the first half of the twentieth century, ideas about race war come to fuse themselves with state genocidal projects to eliminate internal and external enemy races. Global processes of racialization did not end with the Second World War and with the discrediting of scientific racism, the decolonization of the global South and the expansion of the state-system to newly independent states; rather it continued in different forms as the racialization of cultural or civilizational attributes that then resulted in further racial violence. From fears about the "Yellow Peril", the "Clash of Civilization" or, more recently, the "Great Replacement", the global imaginary is constituted by ideas about racial difference. Examining global politics in terms of race and racial violence reveals a different spatial topology across domestic and global politics. Global histories of racial hierarchy and violence have important implications for understanding the continued salience of race within Western polities. The waning of a white world order translates into racial retrenchment and violence at home. In Killing Them All Barder revisits two centuries of international history to show the important consequences of a global racial imaginary that continues to reverberate across time and space"-- Provided by publisher.
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