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Traces the history of the category of race in history & historiography from ancient Egypt to the present. It is observed that the extreme ethnic heterogeneity & ethnocentrism of ancient Egypt began to change around 500 BC, when darker pigmentation became associated with ugliness & slavery. At this point, blackness increasingly became associated with Muslims, who were generally reviled in the Christian world. Modern racism is described as beginning from the first 15th-century contact between Europeans & Africans in the context of the system of slavery. Modern historiography since the 17th century is shown to have been conditioned by the context of slavery & racism to exclude Africans & African history from the pantheon of great historical events. It is concluded that contemporary historians would do well to focus on the interaction & mixture of the races rather than their isolation if they are to develop responsible & accurate historical accounts of the past & present. D. M. Smith

It is argued that conservative condemnation of politically correct scholarship as subjective & politicized is based on the false belief that traditional (ie, conservative & Eurocentric) scholarship was objective. It is contended here that traditional scholarship only appeared to be objective, because scholars shared a set of ideological assumptions & did not question the ideological bases of their work. Political correctness may be seen as the extension of the principle of antidefamation beyond Judaism to other groups that have been systemically defamed in the US. J. Ferrari

The Chung-hua min-kuo tzu-yu tang or tzu-yu tangwas named after the Japanese Jiyūtōwhich was conventionally known as the 'Liberal Party'. However, in both Japanese and Chinese the word Jiyū/tzu-yu retained strong connotations of 'liberty' which have been lost by the word 'Liberal'. It seems best therefore to leave the title untranslated.