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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... race hatred in the ancient world.3 The prejudices that existed , so it is believed , were ethnic or cultural , not racial . In this book I shall argue that early forms of racism , to be called proto - racism , were common in the Graeco ...
... Race Mixture among the Greeks Before Alexander ( Urbana , IL , 1937 ) . This is a learned and thoughtful work , submitted as a Ph.D. thesis in 1930. It can perhaps be said that the author was the victim of the follies of his time , for ...
... race does not appear until the trans - Atlantic voyages of the Renaissance . " Naturally , in the United States , those who discuss racism tend to focus on skin color . The article continues : " Another way of thinking about skin color ...
... racial theorists of his times , whereby ideas of beauty and ugliness are narrowly ethnocentric and dictated largely ... Race Relations ( London , 1967 ) , 28 ; Anthony J. Barker , The African Link : British Attitudes to the Negro in the ...
... race differ- ences , since " Negro men and Negro women , transported to the coldest coun- tries , still produce there animals [ sic ] of their own species . " Unlike Buffon , Voltaire believed in polygenesis . Being an unbeliever and ...