(World) Orders and Societal Futures: Racist Practices of Comparing in the Caribbean 1791-1912 (F01 [A03])

• Subject Area: Modern and Contemporary History
• Term: from 2017 to 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 317664947

This subproject is studying the meaning and change of racist practices of comparing in Caribbean societies and within the global world order between the Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) and the ‘Race War’ in Cuba in 1912. The central focus lies on the question of how the concept of race, which at the end of the 18th century was still based on complex comparisons, morphed into the dichotomous colour line, and as such acquired crucial explanatory power for culturally and politically structuring the global 20th century.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1288: Practices of comparisons: Ordering and changing the world
• Applicant Institution: Universität Bielefeld
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Angelika Epple; Professorin Dr. Eleonora Rohland