HIS 380 History of Racism & Anti-Semitism

Humanities & Social Sciences Program
Prague, Czech Republic

Dates: 2/1/22 - 5/24/22

Humanities & Social Sciences

HIS 380 History of Racism & Anti-Semitism

HIS 380 History of Racism & Anti-Semitism Course Overview

OVERVIEW

CEA CAPA Partner Institution: Anglo-American University
Location: Prague, Czech Republic
Primary Subject Area: History
Instruction in: English
Transcript Source: TBD
Course Details: Level 300
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 42
Prerequisites: None

DESCRIPTION

The course traces the development of racial prejudice and anti-Semitism, from their roots in the classical and mediaeval worlds to the rise of National Socialism in the early 10th century. Particular emphasis will be paid to the manner in which religious, cultural, linguistic and physical/biological forms of exclusion have overlapped and reinforced each other. It is one of the principal contentions of this course that National Socialism?s exterminatory anti-Semitism is not merely a product of centuries of anti-Jewish prejudice; rather, racial anti-Semitism must be understood as something which evolved in close symbiosis with racial prejudices directed against Africans - slave and free - and colonial peoples from the early modern period, culminating in the historically-particular form of exterminatory racial anti-Semitism which formed the necessary precondition of the Holocaust.


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