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This review article examines recent publications with regard to the changingnotion of racism and suggests that Todorovs arguments about the distinction between the biologogistic notion of racism appearing in Europe late in the eighteenth century, should be distinguished against the mechanicist notion of racialism current in earlier centuries and elsewhere in the world.
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There is an often sterile debate about whether or not certain authors or certain patterns of thinking were racist or not. The debate is sterile, as iit ignores the transformation of the concept of race taking place in late eighteenth-century Europe.
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This page is a summary of: Review: Zum Stand der Forschung über den Rassismus im 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhundert, Zeitschrift für Weltgeschichte, January 2018, Peter Lang, International Academic Publishers,
DOI: 10.3726/zwg0220186.
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