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MillerComm Lecture Series

The Historical Construction of Racism: A Comparison of White Supremacy and Anti-Semitism

Tuesday, April 1st, 2003
George Fredrickson
7:30pm

Room 407, Levis Faculty Center

919 West Illinois Street

Urbana

Event Description

The nation's leading writer of comparative history brings together the trajectories of anti-semitism and of white supremacy over the last 500 years, emphasizing both similarities and differences.  Frederickson traces the decline of the religious universalism that had set limits on the elaboration of racist views.  His analysis of the effects of democratic revolutions and emancipation movements on the status of blacks and Jews lays the groundwork for a sweeping reinterpretation of the economic, political, and cultural contexts of the intensified racism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Hosted by: Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society

In conjunction with:  Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Asian American Studies Program, Department of Educational Policy Studies, Department of History, Department of Sociology, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Institute of Communications Research, Jewish Studies Workshop, Latino/a Studies Program, Program in Jewish Culture and Society, Women's Studies Program, John Henry Newman Institute of Catholic Thought, St. John's Catholic Chapel

George Fredrickson

Robinson Professor of History, Stanford University