From: tbos@social-sci.ss.emory.edu
To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK <wsn@csf.colorado.edu>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 1998 12:24:05 +0000
Subject: Globalization, Imperialism and Racism 
In-reply-to: <v02110119b1ef67ea2fac@[194.125.19.133]>
WS nets, 

I am looking for references to literature that discusses the 
relationship between globalization, imperialism and racism in an 
historical perspective.  Specifically, in the late 19th century and 
especially the early 20th, there was a marked increase in racial 
conflict and the promulgating of racist ideologies worldwide.  In the 
US, we had the imposition f Jim Crow and banning Chinese immigration, 
followed after the war with a series of violent race riots in the 
North and lynchings in the South.  Post-war Europe was plagued with a 
new especially virulent form of anti-semitism and a new wave of 
colonial conquest over Africa and Asia.  Social Darwinism became 
something debated in the mainstream press, and so on.  I have  my own 
ideas about how this rise in racism was tied to what we 
now call globalization, which peaked in 1914 then fell dramatically 
thereafter.  But, my guess is that my ideas are too obvious to be 
novel and that I've overlooked key literature on the topic because of 
a difference in terminology or discipline.  Any suggestions are 
welcomed.

Bos