The Invention of Racism in Classical AntiquityPrinceton University Press, 5 mar 2006 - 563 pagine There was racism in the ancient world, after all. This groundbreaking book refutes the common belief that the ancient Greeks and Romans harbored "ethnic and cultural," but not racial, prejudice. It does so by comprehensively tracing the intellectual origins of racism back to classical antiquity. Benjamin Isaac's systematic analysis of ancient social prejudices and stereotypes reveals that some of those represent prototypes of racism--or proto-racism--which in turn inspired the early modern authors who developed the more familiar racist ideas. He considers the literature from classical Greece to late antiquity in a quest for the various forms of the discriminatory stereotypes and social hatred that have played such an important role in recent history and continue to do so in modern society. |
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... called proto - racism , were common in the Graeco - Roman world . My second point in this connection is that those early forms served as prototype for modern racism which developed in the eighteenth century . Since racism , ethnic ...
... called racism , since it allows for the possibility of such change . We have to describe them as intolerant and xenophobic , rather than racist.56 Even if this study succeeds in showing that proto - racism was a significant phenomenon ...
... called proto- racism in Graeco - Roman antiquity . After considering racism and racialism , it is now appropriate to consider whether a useful definition of race , in a sense relevant to the present study , is available . Race Not all ...
... called homo sapiens . " This is entirely appropriate , except that it is not just the anthropologists , but also , and even more so , the biologists who dispute the biological relevance of the word " race . " This illustrates very well ...
... called ' travellers ' as they think that term is less derogatory . This might suggest a wish to lose their separate distinc- tive identity so far as the general public is concerned . Half or more of them now live in houses , like most ...