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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... reason for it ( i.e. , blackness ) is the hot climate . How- ever , it is certain that a great number of generations has been needed for it to become part of the species and hereditary . " This shows that Kant , like Buffon , assumed ...
... reason to describe the views of authors such as Renan . Le Bon , Taine , and Gobineau ( all discussed , for instance , in Todorov , On Human Diversity ) . 28 E.g. , Ernest Renan , L'Avenir de la science ( published in 1890 , based on ...
... reason to pass over a truly relevant topic in a lecture.33 Clearly the Roman imperial period should be covered systematically . Fourth - century pagan litera- ture will be included , although in a less systematic manner.34 It was my ...
... reason to cite this here , since it has been replaced in the new edition of the OED . Similarly , the Israel Supreme Court , in an opinion given by Justice Eliahu Mazza in a criminal appeal , ha - Ruv Ido Albeh v State of Israel , 1831 ...
... reason for this is the reality of continuous migration , both individual and large - scale , and the mingling of peoples . No races do in fact exist.78 All modern European nations , for instance , show a composite racial history as a ...