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PATRICK BRANTLINGER, Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800-1930. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2003, xv + 241 p.
The central themes of Dark Vanishings are summed up on page 190, where Brantlinger argues that the idea of extinction discourse--the inevitable disappearance of the "dark" peoples of the earth--has been supported by a belief that societies progress from being savage to being civilized.
He traces the history of the science of racism and its subset, extinction discourse, through the main period of European imperialism and colonialism. Drawing on the writings of missionaries, colonizers, government official, soldiers, novelists, poets, scientists and others, he presents their argument that the "primitive races" of the world would have disappeared because of their savagery and that the genocide, warfare and diseases the Europeans brought to others simply accelerated...
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