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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... physical appear- ance . These are almost always the subject of racist views . Thus it would deny the qualification of racism to claims that a certain people has a distinctive smell or an ugly skull , for instance , since these are not ...
... physically largely undistinguishable from the majority . This was true for the Jews and for other minorities . Although much was made of presumed physical differences , it remained a fact that many or most Jews looked like their non ...
... physical traits and certain traits of per- sonality , intellect , or culture and , combined with it , the notion that some races are inherently superior to others . " Here the applicability of the term racism depends on the factor of ...
... physical and mental qualities . It therefore attributes to those individuals and groups of peo- ples collective traits , physical , mental , and moral , which are constant and un- alterable by human will , because they are caused by ...
... physical factors : biology , climate , or geography . It is , of course , possible to think in racist terms without using the word " race " ; another term , such as " dif- ference . " may do just as well . " Both racist attitudes and ...