Racisms - The Hidden Logics of Prejudice

Racisms: The Hidden Logics of Prejudice

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English | 2026 | ISBN-10: 3032229618 | 197 pages| Epub PDF (True) | 7 MB
This book presents a critical and comparative history of how human populations have been socially constructed and categorized through racializing processes. Building on Renato Foschi’s Italian volume Storia dei razzismi (2022), this expanded English edition offers a unique synthesis of historical case studies and the underlying logics that have sustained racism across time and cultures.

Foschi distinguishes between spiritual and scientific racisms, tracing their development through religious, philosophical, and pseudo-scientific traditions. He examines how various groups—including Jewish communities, people of African descent, women, working-class individuals, and LGBTQ+ people—have been positioned as distinct “races” through shifting systems of exclusion. The book also explores lesser-known cases, such as the racialization of Southern Italians, to nstrate how these dynamics operate within national and regional contexts.