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| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 101.1 | The History Cooperative
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March, 2005
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Racism
A Short History

By George M. Frederickson
(Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 2002. Pp. x, 207. Appendix, notes, index. Paperbound, $14.95.)

In this sweeping, provocative book, George Fredrickson explores the development of racism and anti-Semitism from the Middle Ages to the present. For Fredrickson, the term racism has become so "loaded and ambiguous" that he has taken it as his duty to historicize the term, to explain the way people have thought about race and used it to construct social and cultural hierarchies over the last millennium (p. 151). Racism, in Fredrickson's view, is not just prejudice—an attitude or set of beliefs—but involves the creation and use of practices, institutions, and structures that allow a dominant group to establish a racial order that they believe reflects the law of nature or God's will. . . .
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