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"Race and the Making of American Political Science shows that changing scientific ideas about racial difference were central to the academic study of politics as it emerged in the United States. From the late nineteenth century through the 1930s, scholars of politics defined and continually reoriented their field in response to the political imperatives of the racial order at home and abroad as well to as the vagaries of race science. The Gilded Age scholars who founded the first university departments and journals located sovereignty and legitimacy in a "Teutonic germ" of liberty planted in the new world by Anglo-Saxon settlers and almost extinguished in the conflict over slavery. Within a generation, "Teutonism" would come to seem like philosophical speculation, but well into the twentieth century, major political scientists understood racial difference to be a fundamental shaper of political life. They wove popular and scientific ideas about race into their accounts of political belonging, of progress and change, of proper hierarchy, and of democracy and its warrants. And they attended closely to new developments in race science, viewing them as central to their own core questions. In doing so, they constructed models of human difference and political life that still exert a powerful hold on our political imagination today, in and outside of the academy. By tracing this history, Jessica Blatt effects a bold reinterpretation of the origins of U.S. political science, one that embeds that history in larger processes of the coproduction of racial ideas, racial oppression, and political knowledge"--Publisher's description

Race and the Making of American Political Science shows that changing scientific ideas about racial difference were central to the academic study of politics as it emerged in the United States. From the late nineteenth century through the 1930s, scholars of politics defined and continually reoriented their field in response to the political imperatives of the racial order at home and abroad as well to as the vagaries of race science.The Gilded Age scholars who founded the first university departments and journals located sovereignty and legitimacy in a "Teutonic germ" of liberty planted in the new world by Anglo-Saxon settlers and almost extinguished in the conflict over slavery. Within a generation, "Teutonism" would come to seem like philosophical speculation, but well into the twentieth century, major political scientists understood racial difference to be a fundamental shaper of political life. They wove popular and scientific ideas about race into their accounts of political belonging, of progress and change, of proper hierarchy, and of democracy and its warrants. And they attended closely to new developments in race science, viewing them as central to their own core questions. In doing so, they constructed models of human difference and political life that still exert a powerful hold on our political imagination today, in and outside of the academy.By tracing this history, Jessica Blatt effects a bold reinterpretation of the origins of U.S. political science, one that embeds that history in larger processes of the coproduction of racial ideas, racial oppression, and political knowledge.

Diese Zusammenstellung von Beiträgen ist unmittelbar aus dem Umfeld des Bereichs Weiterbildung am Fachbereich Sozialwesen der Fachhochschule Münster entstanden. Die Autorinnen und Autoren waren auf unterschiedliche Weise an der Entwicklung dieses Bereichs beteiligt und bringen in ihren Beiträgen die dabei gewonnenen Erfahrungen sowohl der konzeptionellen Arbeit als auch der praktischen Durchführung ein. Die vorgestellten Perspektiven und Beispiele lassen ein ungeschminktes Bild einer nicht immer integrierten Entwicklung erkennen. Die Themen des ersten Teils behandeln grundlegende Fragen wissenschaftlicher Weiterbildung in der Trägerschaft von Hochschulen, erörtern pädagogisch-curriculare Fragen der Erwachsenenbildung und reflektieren Erfahrungen bei der organisatorischen Umsetzung im Hochschulsystem. Der zweite Teil umfasst Erfahrungen und Reflexionen von Referenten, die sich mit unterschiedlichen Veranstaltungen am Weiterbildungsprogramm des Fachbereichs Sozialwesen der Fachhochschule Münster beteiligt haben.