While it does elide some of the complexities of anti-Semitism with regards to the formation of whiteness, Horne’s big-picture perspective offers a mostly balanced approach to this particularly vexed question. Horne places Jews in the Americas as part of emergent pan-European whiteness. In The Dawning of the Apocalypse, Gerald Horne has rendered an astonishing reorientation of the violent advent of global modernity and the brutal collisions of. August 2019 saw numerous commemorations of the year 1619. In the context of European expansion to the Americas, these networks provided important knowledge as well as financial capital for the imperial project of settler colonial apocalypse. The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century. Acclaimed historian Gerald Horne troubles Americas settler colonialisms creation myth. Jewish flight from Spain and Portugal during the Inquisition, as well as their expulsion from England from the 13th through 17th centuries, resulted in the creation of transnational Jewish networks.
In his account, Jews in the 16th century appear as both fugitives from persecution and mobile denizens of diasporic networks necessary to their survival. While the issue of Jewish involvement in the slave trade has occasioned internecine historiographical conflict, Horne parses this charged issue quite sensibly. The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century, by Gerald Horne. In documenting the rise of pan-European whiteness, for example, Horne traces the role of Sephardic Jewish communities fleeing Iberian inquisitions.
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