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Although discrimination has not often been the explicit subject of historical research, the fact that discrimination has been ubiquitous in most societies throughout history has made it an implicit feature of much historical research. This chapter discusses several ways historians have approached discrimination as a historical subject, including analysis of the origins of discriminatory social structures and their development through time, implicit paradoxes of egalitarian discourses and discriminatory practices within the field of history itself.
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Hálfdanarson, G., Vilhelmsson, V. (2017). Historische Diskriminierungsforschung. In: Scherr, A., El-Mafaalani, A., Yüksel, G. (eds) Handbuch Diskriminierung. Springer Reference Sozialwissenschaften. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-10976-9_2
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