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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... described as " scientific racism , " was an offshoot of the ideas about evolution that developed in the nineteenth century . Since racism is thought not to be attested earlier , conventional wisdom usually denies that there was any race ...
... described above . It is di- vided into two parts . The first discusses general concepts and their develop- ment , and the second deals with specific peoples as presented in the literature of the periods considered . I shall discuss ...
... described do not represent anything like Aristotle's original ideas , for although Aristotle may consider some foreigners bestial or brutish , and approximate 30 Aristotle , De generatione animalium 162a 10ff .; Meteorologica , 381b 10 ...
... described as " any argument which suggests that the human species is composed of dis- crete groups in order to legitimate inequality between those groups of people . " This definition has the same advantages and the same problems as ...
... described by Mason . At this point it may be useful to add some definitions given by a number of standard works of reference , as representing commonly accepted thinking and usage . The Encyclopaedia Britannica defines racism as " the ...