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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Racial century''' is a term that has been used by historians to refer to the century between 1850 and 1950, especially in the context of [[Postcolonialism|postcolonial studies]]. The term employs [[Race (human categorization)|race]] and [[racism]] as the primary category of analysis of global, national, and local affairs.<ref name="Miller">{{cite book |editor1-last= Miller |editor1-first= Alisa |editor2-last= Rowe |editor2-first= Laura |editor3-last= Kitchen |editor3-first= James | year= 2011 | title= Other Combatants, Other Fronts: Competing Histories of the First World War | chapter =Introduction |publisher= Cambridge Scholars Publishing |pages=xxxviii |isbn= 9781443828123}}</ref><br />
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The term was originally proposed by [[Dirk Moses]],<ref>[[Anne Fuchs]], Jonathan James Long, ''W.G. Sebald and the Writing of History'', p. 110, Königshausen & Neumann, 2007</ref> who describes the "racial century" as "a single modernization process of accelerating violence related to [[nation-building]] that commenced in the [[New Imperialism|European colonial periphery]] and culminated in [[the Holocaust]]."<ref>{{cite journal |last=Moses |first= A. Dirk |author-link1= Dirk Moses |year= 2002 |title= Conceptual blockages and definitional dilemmas in the 'racial century': Genocides of indigenous peoples and the Holocaust |journal=[[Patterns of Prejudice]] |volume= 36 |issue=4 |pages=7–36 |doi= 10.1080/003132202128811538 |s2cid= 145222840 |doi-access= free }}</ref> Moses argues that colonial genocides and mass exterminations of the 20th century should be seen as a unified process.<ref>{{cite book |last=Moses |first= A. Dirk |author-link1= Dirk Moses |editor1-last=Moses |editor1-first=A. Dirk |editor1-link=Dirk Moses |editor2-last= Stone |editor2-first=Dan | year= 2013 | title= Colonialism and Genocide | chapter =The racial century, c. 1850–1950 |publisher= [[Routledge]] |pages=174–180 |isbn=9781317997535}}</ref> The term has gained increasing acceptance in postcolonial studies since the early 2000s.<ref name="Miller" /><br />
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