Racism and colonialism
Subtitle: essays on ideology and social structure
By: by D. van Arkel ... [et al.] ; edited by Robert Ross.
Contributors: Arkel, D. van.; Ross, Robert, 1949 July 26-
Series: Comparative studies in overseas history ;; v. 4
Publisher: [Published by] M. Nijhoff Publishers for the Leiden University Press; Distributors for the U.S. and Canada, Kluwer Boston
Published: 1982
Place of publication: The Hague; Hingham, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Racism -- Congresses.; Imperialism -- Congresses.; Social classes -- Congresses.
Description: "This book ... the product of a symposium held by the Leiden Centre for the History of European Expansion, is organised around a single theme, the relationship between the ideological structures of domination and oppression that have come to be called racism and the political and economic ones which grew out of Europe's conquering and ruling much of the rest of the world. By racism, we mean those systems of thought in which group characteristics of human beings, of a non-somatic nature, are considered to be fixed by principles of descent and in which, in general, physical attributes (other than those of sex) are the main sign by which characteristics are attributed. In addition, almost by definition, the systems of thought entailed in this require that there is a hierarchy of the various races, and that those people in the lower ranks of that hierarchy are seriously disadvantaged, at least if the proponents of racist thought are able to impose their will on the society in which they live. The exclusion of the discrimination of women from the concept of racism should not be thought as entailing that racist and sexist ideas do not have much in common, since both derive from essentially biological determinism, and indeed racist societies have historically almost invariably been strongly sexist"--Google Books, viewed June 10, 2021.

The emergence of racism as an ideology set in the historical context of European colonial expansion and changing social structures; no specifically Australian material.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.