The Victims of Slavery, Colonization and the Holocaust A Comparative History of Persecution

by Millet, Kitty; Jackson, Paul

• ISBN13: 9781472509970
• ISBN10: 1472509978
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2018-09-06
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

The Victims of Slavery, Colonization and the Holocaust provides a sophisticated investigation into the experience of being exterminated, as felt by victims of the Holocaust, and compares and contrasts this with the experiences of people who have been colonised or enslaved. Using numerous victim accounts and a wide range of primary sources, this book moves away from the 'continuity thesis', which regularly conflates and oversimplifies studies of the Holocaust in relation to other historical examples of mass political violence, to look at the victim experience on its own terms. By affording each constituent case study its own distinctive aspects, The Victims of Slavery, Colonization and the Holocaust allows for a more enriching comparison of victim experience to be made. It is an important, innovative volume for all students of the Holocaust, genocide and the history of mass political violence.

Author Biography

Kitty Millet is Professor of Holocaust Studies and Comparative Jewish Literatures at San Francisco State University, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part I - 'Being' Exterminated
1. Neither Race nor Ethnicity: The Construction of an Exterminated Community
2. Ontologically Pure Space
Part 2 - 'Being' Colonized
3. Both Race and Ethnicity: The Construction of a Subaltern Community
4. Following the Dialectic to Produce the Colonizer
Part III - 'Being' Enslaved
5. To Imagine 'Being' Free
6. The Social Institution of Slavery and the Constitution of the Slave Owning Subject
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index