2020/12/09 by Felix Lösing · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Aesthetics #African history and culture studies #Art #Biology #Botany #Colonialism #Cornerstone #Darkness #Gender studies #German Literature and Culture Studies #Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics #History #Human rights #Ideology #Law #Movement (music) #Political science #Politics #Power (physics) #Race, History, and American Society #Racism #Sociology #State (computer science) #White (mutation) #White supremacy
paper · doi:10.14361/9783839454985
openalex publication_date 2021/01/19 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/15
The British and American Congo Reform Movement (ca. 1890-1913) has been praised extensively for its ›heroic‹ confrontation of colonial atrocities in the Congo Free State. Its commitment to white supremacy and colonial domination, however, continues to be overlooked, denied, or trivialised. This historical-sociological study argues that racism was the ideological cornerstone and formed the main agenda of this first major human rights campaign of the 20th century. Through a thorough analysis of contemporary sources, Felix Lösing unmasks the colonial and racist formation of the modern human rights discourse and investigates the ›historical work‹ of racism at a crossroads between imperial power and ›white crisis‹.