Dr Iris Wigger

biography : publications : workshops & talks : links

List of Publications

 

2011               Racism and Modernity. Edited collection (Festschrift Wulf D. Hund). Together with Sabine Ritter (eds.). With contributions from Charles W. Mills, David Roediger, Micha Brumlik, Max Sebastián Hering Torres, Audrey Smedley, Robert Bernasconi,, Gary Taylor, Simone Borgstede et al. LIT Verlag, Münster, Berlin, Münster, Vienna, Zürich, London.

 

A 'Race' in the Making. Robert Knox and the Racialisation of the Irish in Nineteenth Century British Anthropology. In: Iris Wigger and Sabine Ritter (eds.): Racism and Modernity. LIT, Berlin, Münster, Vienna, Zürich, London, pp. 131-148 .

 

2010               Interlinked Discriminations. Race, Nation, Gender and Class and the 'Black Shame'. Race & Class 51 (3) 2010. Sage, pp. 33-46.

 

2009               The Interconnections of Discrimination. Gender, Class, Nation and Race and the 'Black Shame'. European Societies. Journal of the European Sociological Association 11 (4) 2009. Routledge, pp. 553-582.

 

"'Die Schwarze Schmach'. Afrikaner in der Progaganda der zwanziger Jahre." [The 'Black Shame'. Africans in the Propaganda of the 1920's]. In: Gerhard Paul (ed): Das Jahrhundert der Bilder. Bildatlas 1900-1949, Vol. 1. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, pp. 468-485.

 

Bruder Mohr. Angelo Soliman und der Rassismus der Aufklärung. [Brother Moor. Angelo Soliman and the Racism of the Enlightenment]. In: Wulf D. Hund (ed.): Entfremdete Körper. Rassismus als Leichenschändung. With co-author Katrin Klein. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, pp. 81-115.

 

2007               Die 'Schwarze Schmach' am Rhein. Rassistische Diskriminierung zwischen Geschlecht, Nation, Klasse und Rasse. [The 'Black Disgrace' on the Rhine. Racist Discrimination between Gender, Class, Nation, and Race]. Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster.

 

                        'Tales of two Cities' – Stadtgeschichten aus Hamburg und Chicago.  Together with Claudia Schnurmann (Eds.).  LIT-Verlag, Münster, Hamburg, second, revised edition.

 

2006               'Tales of two Cities' – Stadtgeschichten aus Hamburg und Chicago.  together with Claudia Schnurmann (Eds.).  LIT-Verlag, Münster, Hamburg, first edition.

 

                        "'Die Schwarze Schmach'". Article for the Bavarian online Encyclopaedia of History. (http://www.historisches-lexikon-bayerns.de/artikel/artikel 44947 – 5/2006).

 

2004               "Wenn 'Wilde wie Herren im Herzen Europas hausen'. Das Dogma weißer Überlegenheit im Diskurs zur 'Schwarzen Schmach'." ["When 'savages live like masters in the heart of Europe'. The dogma of white supremacy in the discourse on the 'Black Disgrace'."]. Zwischen Charleston und Stechschritt. Schwarze im Nationalsozialismus. Ed., Peter Martin, München, Hamburg, pp. 137-141.  

 

2002               "'Against the Laws of Civilisation': Race, Gender and Nation in the International Racist Campaign on the 'Black Shame'." Berkeley Journal of Sociology, University of Berkeley, California. Vol. 46, 2002, pp. 113-131.

 

                        "'Gegen die Kultur und Zivilisation aller Weißen'. Die internationale rassistische Kampagne gegen die 'Schwarze Schmach'." ["'Against the Culture and Civilisation of all Whites'. The international Racist Campaign against the 'Black Disgrace'"]. Jahrbuch Fritz-Bauer-Institut, Campus Verlag, Frankfurt, New York, pp. 101-128.

                                   

2001               "'Schwarze Schmach' und 'Weiße Frau'. Über die Logik rassistischer Rhetorik" ["'Black Disgrace' and 'White Woman'. Regarding the logic of racist rhetoric"]. Schwarzweissheiten. Vom Umgang mit fremden Menschen. Landesmuseum Oldenburg, Isensee Verlag, Oldenburg, pp. 150-156.

 

1997               Wohn(t)räume. 75 Jahre Gemeinnützige Baugenossenschaft Hamburg-Nordost  ["Imaginations and spaces of housing: 75 years history of the house-building co-operative Hamburg-Nordost"]. Co-author, Erich Schmidt, VSA-Verlag, Hamburg.

 

1996               "'Ein eigenartiges Volk'. Die Ethnisierung des Zigeunerstereotyps im Spiegel von Enzyklopädien und Lexika" ["'A Strange People'. The racialisation of the gypsy-stereotype in encyclopaedias and dictionaries"]. Zigeuner. Geschichte und Struktur einer rassistischen Konstruktion. ["Gypsy. History and structure of a racist construction"]. Ed., Wulf. D. Hund, Duisburger Institut für Sprach- und Sozialforschung, Duisburg, pp. 37-66.

 

The above article was re-published in: Stichwort Zigeuner. Stigmatisierung von Sinti und Roma in Lexika und Enzyklopädien ["Watchword 'Gypsy': The stigmatisation of Sinti and Roma in dictionaries and encyclopaedias"]. Ed., Anita Awosusi, Verlag Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 1998, pp. 13-43.

Research Papers

(refereed conference contributions and invited guest lectures)

 

 

2010               Constructing the Other: Representations of the Irish in nineteenth century British academia. Research paper to be presented at the  XVII. ISA World Congress of Sociology 'Sociology on the Move'. Gothenburg, Sweden (forthcoming July 2010)

 

2009               'White supremacy' under attack?! Anti-African racism in the “Black Horror on the Rhine” campaign. Research paper presented at the interdisciplinary conference "Race in the Modern World", Goldsmith College, London.

 

2008               "'The Black Shame on the Rhine' Racist Discrimination in the context of Gender, Class, Nation and 'Race'. Invited guest lecture and book presentation at the University of Hamburg, Germany.

 

"Mixed Relations – Interconnected Discriminations'. Conference "Race and Sexual Politics in Nation, Region, Empire." American National Women's Studies Association, Cincinnati, US. 

 

2007               "'Racialised Bodies – Interlinked Discriminiations. Race, Nation, Gender and Class and the 'Black Shame'". Conference "Whiteness, Race, and Reproduction. Bodies, Nations, Knowledges", Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association, Adelaide, Australia.

 

"'Stereotyping Paddy'. The Construction of Whiteness and anti-Irish Racism in the long nineteenth century." Conference "Ireland Across Cultures", University of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria.       

 

2002               "'Schwarze Schmach' und 'Weiße Frau': Rassistische, sexistische und nationalistische Diskriminierungsmuster in einer Internationalen Kampagne." ['Black Disgrace' and 'White Woman': Racist, sexist and nationalist patterns of discrimination in an International campaign."]. Paper presented at the Conference of the Kölner Appell gegen Rassismus e.V., Cologne, Germany.

 

"'Unsere Jugend im Rheinland geschändet, unser Volk verseucht, die Würde des Deutschen und der weissen Rasse zertreten'. Die Kampagne gegen die 'Schwarze Schmach' im Kontext von Rasse, Geschlecht und Nation" ["'Our young people in the Rhineland violated, our people contaminated, the dignity of the Germans and the white race crushed': The campaign against the 'Black Disgrace' in the context of Race, Gender and Nation"]. Paper presented at the History Colloquium, Institut für Europäische Geschichte, Mainz, Germany.

 

2001               "The 'Black Horror': Racism in the Context of Nation, Class and Gender." Paper presented at the Round Table on History and the Far Right, Centre for Cultural and Social History, University of Essex, Great Britain.

 

"The 'Black Shame' and 'White Womanhood': An Occidental Racist Discourse in the Context of Race, Nation, Class and Gender." Paper presented at the Tenth Anniversary Conference of the Women's History Network, London, Great Britain.

 

                        "'Against the Laws of Civilisation': Biological and Cultural Elements in the Racist Campaign on the 'Black Shame'." Paper presented at the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, NGO-Forum, International Sociological Association Panel on "Otherness" and Gendered Racisms, Durban, South Africa.

1998              

"Von 'arbeitsscheu' bis 'ziehende Gauner'. Das Zigeunerstereotyp in der Geschichte deutscher Lexika und Enzyklopädien" ["From 'Idleness' to 'Travelling Crooks': The Gypsy- Stereotype in the History of German Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias"]. Research paper presented at the conference of the Dokumentations- und Kulturzentrum Deutscher Sinti and Roma, Heidelberg, Germany.