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oapen-20.500.12657-300112021-11-15T08:21:31Z The Genocidal Gaze Baer, Elizabeth R. History Holocaust German Studies Jewish Studies Literary Criticism and Theory Genocide Hendrik Witbooi (Namaqua chief) Herero people Morenga (film) Nama people The Holocaust The first genocide of the twentieth century, though not well known, was committed by Germans between 1904–1907 in the country we know today as Namibia, where they exterminated hundreds of Herero and Nama people and subjected the surviving indigenous men, women, and children to forced labor. The perception of Africans as subhuman—lacking any kind of civilization, history, or meaningful religion—and the resulting justification for the violence against them is what author Elizabeth R. Baer refers to as the “genocidal gaze,” an attitude that was later perpetuated by the Nazis. In The Genocidal Gaze: From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich, Baer uses the metaphor of the gaze to trace linkages between the genocide of the Herero and Nama and that of the victims of the Holocaust. Significantly, Baer also considers the African gaze of resistance returned by the indigenous people and their leaders upon the German imperialists. 2018-05-18 23:55 2019-05-28 03:00:39 2020-04-01T12:42:30Z 2020-04-01T12:42:30Z 2017-11-20 book 650083 OCN: 1013744055 9780814343852;9780814343869 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30011 eng application/pdf n/a 650083.pdf Wayne State University Press 101055 d29f80f2-d306-4261-99c7-7a6f58918c4e b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780814343852;9780814343869 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) 101055 KU Select 2017: Front list Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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The first genocide of the twentieth century, though not well known, was committed by Germans between 1904–1907 in the country we know today as Namibia, where they exterminated hundreds of Herero and Nama people and subjected the surviving indigenous men, women, and children to forced labor. The perception of Africans as subhuman—lacking any kind of civilization, history, or meaningful religion—and the resulting justification for the violence against them is what author Elizabeth R. Baer refers to as the “genocidal gaze,” an attitude that was later perpetuated by the Nazis. In The Genocidal Gaze: From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich, Baer uses the metaphor of the gaze to trace linkages between the genocide of the Herero and Nama and that of the victims of the Holocaust. Significantly, Baer also considers the African gaze of resistance returned by the indigenous people and their leaders upon the German imperialists.
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