Introduction; Part I. Concepts of National Identity and the Symbolic
Construction of Nations: 1. National identity and the conditions of
tolerance; 2. The historical invention and modern reinvention of two
national identities; 3. Segmented politics: xenophobia, citizenship, and
political loyalty in Germany; 4. The discoursive construction of national
stereotypes: collective imagination and racist concepts in Germany before
World War I; 5. Integration and fragmentation discourses: demanding and
supplying 'identity' in diverse societies; Part II. The Social and Cultural
Practice of Racism: 6. Race, class, and Southern racial violence; 7. Racism
and Empire: a perspective on a new era of American history; 8. Police,
African Americans, and Irish immigrants in the nation's capital; 9. The
politics of boycotting: experiences in Germany and the United States since
1880; 10. Jews and the German language; Part III. Race, Gender, Body,
Biology: 11. Ambiguous roles: the racial factor in American womanhood; 12.
Citizenship embodied: racialized gender and the construction of nationhood
in the United States; 13. Body matters: race, gender, and perceptions of
physical ability from Goethe to Weininger; 14. A horse breeder's
perspective: scientific racism in Germany, 1870-1933; 15. The thin line
between eugenics and preventive medicine.
