Dorian Bell
Biographic Data
| ID | 3587313 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dorian Bell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dorian |
| FAMILY NAME | Bell |
| SIGNATURE | BELL D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
White Atlantic
This article proposes that a new white racial consciousness is emerging in France. Camouflaged as the default universal, unraced and unmarked, against which racial difference is measured, whiteness turns racelessness into power. We know as much from the critical race and whiteness studies that have dissected the normative apparatus at work in white pretentions to color-blindness. But if such a critique remains relevant in France—where color-blind…
Globalizing Race
Author(s): Bell, Dorian | Abstract: Globalizing Race explores how intersections between French antisemitism and imperialism shaped the development of European racial thought. Ranging from the African misadventures of the antisemitic Marquis de Mores to the Parisian novels and newspapers of late nineteenth-century professional antisemites, Dorian Bell argues that France's colonial expansion helped antisemitism take its modern, racializing form--an…
Agent Oss 117
The Jew as Model
It is often expeditious to assume that the anti-Semitic depictions so commonplace in nineteenth-century French literature simply echoed prevailing French notions about Jews. This paper seeks to complicate that assumption, drawing on the work of Edmond and Jules de Goncourt to ask whether a certain segment of French literature, for reasons immanent to its evolving poetics and fixations, might have proven especially conducive to anti-Semitic discou…
Cavemen Among Us
Although critics have rightly linked Claude Chabrol's film Le Boucher (1969) to Zola's novel La Bête humaine (1890), the two have yet to be considered in the context of the century-long tradition of thought about atavism that informs them both. This article reconstructs that tradition, examining how Le Boucher 's modern-day caveman suggests twentieth-century cultural continuities with nineteenth-century notions of man's relation to his evolutiona…
White Atlantic
This article proposes that a new white racial consciousness is emerging in France. Camouflaged as the default universal, unraced and unmarked, against which racial difference is measured, whiteness turns racelessness into power. We know as much from the critical race and whiteness studies that have dissected the normative apparatus at work in white pretentions to color-blindness. But if such a critique remains relevant in France—where color-blind…
Cavemen Among Us
Although critics have rightly linked Claude Chabrol's film Le Boucher (1969) to Zola's novel La Bête humaine (1890), the two have yet to be considered in the context of the century-long tradition of thought about atavism that informs them both. This article reconstructs that tradition, examining how Le Boucher 's modern-day caveman suggests twentieth-century cultural continuities with nineteenth-century notions of man's relation to his evolutiona…
The Jew as Model
It is often expeditious to assume that the anti-Semitic depictions so commonplace in nineteenth-century French literature simply echoed prevailing French notions about Jews. This paper seeks to complicate that assumption, drawing on the work of Edmond and Jules de Goncourt to ask whether a certain segment of French literature, for reasons immanent to its evolving poetics and fixations, might have proven especially conducive to anti-Semitic discou…
Agent Oss 117
Globalizing Race
Author(s): Bell, Dorian | Abstract: Globalizing Race explores how intersections between French antisemitism and imperialism shaped the development of European racial thought. Ranging from the African misadventures of the antisemitic Marquis de Mores to the Parisian novels and newspapers of late nineteenth-century professional antisemites, Dorian Bell argues that France's colonial expansion helped antisemitism take its modern, racializing form--an…
White Atlantic
This article proposes that a new white racial consciousness is emerging in France. Camouflaged as the default universal, unraced and unmarked, against which racial difference is measured, whiteness turns racelessness into power. We know as much from the critical race and whiteness studies that have dissected the normative apparatus at work in white pretentions to color-blindness. But if such a critique remains relevant in France—where color-blind…
Art (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art history (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works)