The 'Black Horror on the Rhine'

Iris Wigger is Lecturer of Sociology in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, UK. The main focus of her research is racism analysis in historical context - exploring the intersectionalities between ‘race’ and other categories of social inclusion and exclusion.

1.       Introduction.- 1.1. An ‘outrageous humiliation and rape of a highly cultivated white race by a still half barbaric coloured’. Mapping the ‘Black Shame’ Campaign.- 1.2       A ‘propaganda campaign of enormous dimensions’ The ‘Black Horror’ in scholarly debates.- 1.3    A treachery of the ‘women’s world’, ‘the People’ and ‘Race’; The ‘Black Shame’ discourse as a conglomerate of racist discrimination.- 2          Women’s bodies, alien bodies and the racial body of the German Volk; The rhetoric structure of the ‘Black Shame’ Stereotype.- 2.1      A ‘violation of the rules of European civilisation’; The ‘Black Horror’ as international campaign.- 2.2  Spreading the ‘völkish spark’ of German solidarity; The national dividend of the ‘Black Horror’.- 3.           Race, Gender, Nation,Class; The social construction of the ‘Black Shame’.- 3.1    'Black Shame’ and ‘White Woman’; Women’s bodies as medium of racist discrimination.- 3.2 The ‘Black Shame’ as the decline of the occident. The fiction of a threatened white race.- 3.3           France’s attack on the cultured Nations; The continuation of War with racist means.- 3.4  For the sake of the Fatherland

The reconciliation of class society in the community of the people.-  4.       Conclusions.