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El racismo es una creación de la cultura y del pensamiento humanos, una forma de conducta y por ello un fenómeno totalmente histórico, susceptible de cambiar y de adaptarse a situaciones concretas. Con independencia de las bases científicas a las que apela –muchas veces inventadas ad hoc–, CHRISTIAN GEULEN nos muestra que su tema fundamental es la lucha por la afirmación, valoración, pervivencia y supremacía de comunidades percibidas como «razas» que necesariamente se ven enfrentadas entre sí. Aunque ya en la Antigüedad y en época medieval hubo grupos excluidos de la sociedad, ...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Por mucho tiempo ha quedado la historia electoral latinoamericana prisionera de una leyenda negra seg n la cual la representaci n pol tica moderna fue fundamentalmente un fracaso. Las causas que se indican Para explicar este fen meno son conocidas: caudillos, guerras civiles, dominaci n externa, cultura heterog nea y corrupci n, entre otras. Los trabajos reunidos en este volumen ense an que esa visi n oscura fue principalmente el resultado de un espejismo cultural.