Between the seventeenth and the twentieth centuries, societies emerged in many parts of the world which deliberately gave 'white' people power over other 'races'. This unit begins by considering the material and intellectual origins of white supremacy. Emerging doctrines of racial differentiation and evolution are viewed against the background of colonisation, plantation slavery and inter-European warfare. The remainder of the unit is devoted to case studies of racial domination in a number of societies including South Africa, the United States of America, Kenya, Zimbabwe, New Zealand and Australia. -- Course Website
Instructor: Associate Professor Jeremy Martens
Prerequisites: a Level 1 History unit