Identity and Intolerance
Nationalism, Racism, and Xenophobia in Germany and the United States

Table of Contents

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.

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