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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... connection is that those early forms served as prototype for modern racism which developed in the eighteenth century . Since racism , ethnic prejudice , and xenophobia are so widespread in our times and have played such a dominant role ...
... connection between the views Greeks and Romans held of foreign peo- ples and their ideology of imperial expansion . I do not discuss the mechanisms of ancient imperialism , but , again , the attitudes of mind that created an atmo ...
... connection it has been emphasized , however , that the authors of the En- lightenment constantly employ Graeco - Roman concepts and ideas , as will be discussed below . Thus one of the aims of this book is to show that some essen- tial ...
... connection between the two . If we interpret them properly , we can understand what ancient authors meant to convey or conveyed , sometimes without meaning to do so , about other peoples and about foreigners living in their midst . It ...
... connection with other groups . One of the tenets of this study is that racists adapt prototypes of stereotypical thinking to the objects of their preoccupation . The first part of the book will discuss the development of negative or ...