Power and prejudice : the politics and diplomacy of racial discrimination
Discusses the role of race relations in the history of international politics and diplomacy, focusing mainly on black-white relations. Ch. 2 (pp. 44-75), "The Rising Tide, " surveys the rise of race theory, including antisemitism in the 19th century (especially the influence of Social Darwinism), the increase in racism after World War I, the policies of Italian fascism and of German Nazism. States that Hitler's racial antisemitism was an integral part of his program from the beginning. The Holocaust was a turning-point in Western attitudes towards racism, leading eventually to the adoption of the principle of racial equality by the UN despite the reluctance of the Allied states to alter their own policies of discrimination and colonial domination. Surveys the UN's treatment of the issue since 1945, referring to the 1975 "Zionism is racism" resolution. (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism)
Print Book, English, 1988
Westview Press, Boulder, 1988