Racism: the role and responsibility of intellectuals
TitleRacism: the role and responsibility of intellectuals
Author
Call number940.5318/0061
Object number03404A
Place of publicationSydney, New South Wales, Australia
Year of publication
1989
Physical descriptionpp35-42
MaterialArticle
ISBN073167412X
NotesArticle from the book 'The gift of life : commemorative volume which contains the substance of papers presented at the International Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors May 8-12 1985 pp35-42
Description
Racist policy and practice never occurs as a haphazard accident. Such behaviour doesn't arise overnight - there are clear-cut stages in race politics, always accompanied by rationality, premeditation, high levels of consciousness and articulation. Hitler could not have enacted the Nuremberg Laws in 1935, if it were not that their content had gained immediate legitimacy, authority and acceptance