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Elizabeth R. Baer (born 1946) is an American academic whose work specializes in women's and Holocaust studies. She was a member of the Coordinating Council of the National Women's Studies Association from its founding in 1977 through 1979.
Research Professor in English. Update: January 2020. The Genocidal Gaze: From German Southwest Africa to the Third Reich (Wayne Sate UP, 2017) was published in an African edition in 2018 by the Universityof Namibia Press.
The perception of Africans as subhuman—lacking any kind of civilization, history, or meaningful religion—and the resulting justification for the violence against them is what author Elizabeth R. Baer refers to as the “genocidal gaze,” an attitude that was later perpetuated by the Nazis.
The perception of Africans as subhuman--lacking any kind of civilization, history, or meaningful religion--and the resulting justification for the violence against them is what author Elizabeth R. Baer refers to as the "genocidal gaze," an attitude that was later perpetuated by the Nazis.
Nov 20, 2017 · With graphically detailed examples, Elizabeth Baer shows how the roots of Holocaust thinking in German occupied Africa and its influence on the Nazi Genocide must be integrated into any study or theory of colonial and postcolonial theory, systems, and responses.
- Elizabeth R. Baer
The perception of Africans as subhuman-lacking any kind of civilization, history, or meaningful religion-and the resulting justification for the violence against them is what author Elizabeth R. Baer refers to as the "genocidal gaze," an attitude that was later perpetuated by the Nazis.
Elizabeth Roberts Baer, Myrna Goldenberg. Wayne State University Press, 2003 - History - 321 pages. An innovative contribution to the field of Holocaust studies, this set of interdisciplinary...
