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Misformations" increased according to the distance from the climatically favorable center. "The pinched nose of the Kalmucks, the Chinese, and other outlying peoples is . . a deviation, for it interrupts the unity of form. . The protruding, bulging mouth that the moors have in common with the monkeys in their country is a superfluous growth . . "24 With the decline of the medieval perception of the world, in which God was accepted as the direct creator of all being, discussions proliferated concerning the genesis and determination of the human race.
Page 10 Two historical events in particular had a decided influence on the early concept of race: The Spanish Reconquista and the discussion of nobility in France. With the Spanish mandatory-conversion edict of 1492, Jews entered European consciousness as a "race," their peculiar status being further sealed by the claim for "purity of blood," limieza de sangre, designed to exclude them as a powerful group from Spanish society, over and above the conversion. 34 In France the nobility attempted to use the concept of race to explain its privileges through heredity, thereby securing its position against the rising power of the nonhereditary nobility (the middle class) through the institution of peerage.
I've never thought of Afro-German as a positive concept be- Page viii fore," she said, speaking out of the pain of having to live a difference that has no name; speaking out of the growing power self-scrutiny has forged from that difference. I am excited by these women, by their blossoming sense of identity as they say, "Let us be ourselves now as we define us. We are not a figment of your imagination or an exotic answer to your desires. " I see these women as a growing force for international change, in concert with other Afro-Europeans, Afro-Asians, Afro-Americans.