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Palgrave Advances in the Modern History of SexualityRace and Empire

Palgrave Advances in the Modern History of Sexuality: Race and Empire [In his essay ‘The Present Phasis of Ethnology’, which forms the concluding chapter to the second edition of The Races of Men: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Influence of Race over the Destinies of Nations (1892), Robert Knox tells his readers, ‘I had but to look at the map of the world at any time in the stream of history to perceive that in all great questions of civilization, religion, national power, or greatness, the element which chiefly influenced these was in reality the element of race.’1 Race, Knox avers, is everything, and its integrity can only be safeguarded by practices of endogamy (i.e. marriage within the group) and by the avoidance of hybridity (i.e. intermarriage with members of other groups). History, according to this theory, unfolds as a race war — a war based not primarily on real battles, but on the politics of sex. For it is through sex, through procreation, that the continuity of races is or is not maintained, and it is through sex that empires rise or fall, survive or disappear.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Palgrave Advances in the Modern History of SexualityRace and Empire

Part of the Palgrave Advances Book Series
Editors: Cocks, H. G.; Houlbrook, Matt
Forman, Ross
Palgrave Advances in the Modern History of Sexuality — Nov 21, 2015
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Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2006
ISBN
978-1-4039-1290-9
Pages
109 –132
DOI
10.1057/9780230501805_6
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[In his essay ‘The Present Phasis of Ethnology’, which forms the concluding chapter to the second edition of The Races of Men: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Influence of Race over the Destinies of Nations (1892), Robert Knox tells his readers, ‘I had but to look at the map of the world at any time in the stream of history to perceive that in all great questions of civilization, religion, national power, or greatness, the element which chiefly influenced these was in reality the element of race.’1 Race, Knox avers, is everything, and its integrity can only be safeguarded by practices of endogamy (i.e. marriage within the group) and by the avoidance of hybridity (i.e. intermarriage with members of other groups). History, according to this theory, unfolds as a race war — a war based not primarily on real battles, but on the politics of sex. For it is through sex, through procreation, that the continuity of races is or is not maintained, and it is through sex that empires rise or fall, survive or disappear.]

Published: Nov 21, 2015

Keywords: Nineteenth Century; Female Genital Mutilation; Modern History; Settler Coloni; Privy Council

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