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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... qualities , inborn gifts , or 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 ...
... qualities are permanent and cannot be changed . " Hence it claims that the attributed charac- teristics are not subject to control by those so characterized . They come from the inside , that is , from essential traits of the body , or ...
... 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 hereditary factors or ...
... qualities . In other words , if it is shown that a given group of people are statistically more susceptible to a certain illness , this does not mean these peo- ple form a race , for this susceptibility is only one out of all the ...
... qualities . It is a construct of ungrounded theories and discriminatory commonplaces elaborated with the specific aim of establishing the superiority of one group over another , based on presumed physiological characteristics . What we ...