The 'Black Horror on the Rhine'

1.       Introduction.- 1.1. An 'outrageous humiliation and rape of a highly cultivated white race by a still half barbaric coloured'. Mapping the 'Black Shame' Campaign.- 1.2       A 'propaganda campaign of enormous dimensions' The 'Black Horror' in scholarly debates.- 1.3    A treachery of the 'women's world', 'the People' and 'Race'; The 'Black Shame' discourse as a conglomerate of racist discrimination.- 2          Women's bodies, alien bodies and the racial body of the German Volk; The rhetoric structure of the 'Black Shame' Stereotype.- 2.1      A 'violation of the rules of European civilisation'; The 'Black Horror' as international campaign.- 2.2  Spreading the 'völkish spark' of German solidarity; The national dividend of the 'Black Horror'.- 3.           Race, Gender, Nation, Class; The social construction of the 'Black Shame'.- 3.1    'Black Shame' and 'White Woman'; Women's bodies as medium of racist discrimination.- 3.2 The 'Black Shame' as the decline of the occident. The fiction of a threatened white race.- 3.3           France's attack on the cultured Nations; The continuation of War with racist means.- 3.4  For the sake of the Fatherland

The reconciliation of class society in the community of the people.-  4.       Conclusions.

Iris Wigger is Lecturer of Sociology in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, UK. The main focus of her research is racism analysis in historical context - exploring the intersectionalities between 'race' and other categories of social inclusion and exclusion.