Impurity of Blood: Defining Race in Spain, 1870-1930 Contributor(s): Goode, Joshua (Author) |
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ISBN: 080713516X ISBN-13: 9780807135167 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $37.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2009 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Spain & Portugal - Social Science | Discrimination & Race Relations - History | Social History |
Dewey: 305.800 |
LCCN: 2009021199 |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6" W x 9.1" (1.35 lbs) 288 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 - Cultural Region - Spanish |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Although Francisco Franco courted the Nazis as allies during the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s, the Spanish dictator's racial ideals had little to do with the kind of pure lineage that obsessed the Nazis. Indeed, Franco's idea of race -- that of a National Catholic state as the happy meeting grounds of many different peoples willingly blended together -- differed from most European conceptions of race in this period and had its roots in earlier views of Spanish racial identity from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In Impurity of Blood, Joshua Goode traces the development of racial theories in Spain from 1870 to 1930 in the burgeoning human science of anthropology and in political and social debates, exploring the counterintuitive Spanish proposition that racial mixture rather than racial purity was the bulwark of national strength. |