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Bethencourt (history, King's Coll. London) has created an exhaustive and remarkable book that extends our understanding of "racism" through a vast panorama of interactions among peoples. The author generally emphasizes a European perspective, although other versions of race, including the 19th-century Chinese notion of a "hierarchy of peoples," as well as Japanese racism, receive attention. The scope extends from the "European peripheries" of Latin Christianity through the industrial genocide of the Holocaust. Several dimensions exp...Log In or Sign Up to Read More