The Persistence of Race

Lara Day is an art and cultural historian who earned her doctorate at the University of Edinburgh. She has written on such topics as the artist Anselm Kiefer, collective guilt, and the Wilhelmine Heimatschutz movement, and is she currently preparing an intellectual biography of Paul Schultze-Naumburg for publication. She works for Artsy in Berlin.

Acknowledgments



Introduction

Oliver Haag & Lara Day



PART I: CATEGORIES: CONTINUOUS, HETEROGENEOUS NARRATIVES



Chapter 1. The ‘Origin of the Germans’. Narratives, Academic Research, and Bad Cognitive Practice

Ulrich Charpa



Chapter 2. Fantasies of Mixture, Politics of Purity: Narratives of Miscegenation in Colonial Literature, Literary Primitivism, and Theories of Race (1900-1933)

Eva Blome



Chapter 3. Blüte und Zerfall: "Schematic Narrative Templates" of Decline and Fall in Völkisch and National Socialist Racial Ideology

Helen Roche



PART II: GERMANY AND INTERNAL OTHERNESS



Chapter 4. Ernst Lissauer: Advocating Deutschtum Against Cultural Narratives of Race

Arne Offermanns



Chapter 5. The Jewish CEO and the Lutheran Bishop: The impact of German Colonial Studies on Young Jewish and Christian Academics’ Cultural Narratives of Race

Lukas Bormann



PART III: GERMANY AND TRANSNATIONAL OTHERNESS



Chapter 6. Race and Ethnicity in German Criminology: On Crime Rates and the Polish Population in the Kaiserreich (1871–1914)

Volker Zimmermann



Chapter 7. Narratives of Race, Constructions of Community, and the Demand for Female Participation in German-Nationalist Movements in Austria and the German Reich

Johanna Gehmacher



Chapter 8. In the Crosshairs of Degeneracy and Race: The Wilhelmine Origins of the Construction of a National Aesthetic and Parameters of Normalcy in Weimar Germany

Lara Day



PART IV: GERMANY AND COLONIAL OTHERNESS



Chapter 9. "The White Goddess of the Masses": Stardom, Whiteness and Racial Masquerade in Weimar Popular Culture

Pablo Dominguez Andersen



Chapter 10. Idealized Australian Aboriginality in German Narratives of Race

Oliver Haag



Index