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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Benjamin Isaac. ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS • CONTENTS • LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION PART 1 : STEREOTYPES AND PROTO - RACISM : CRITERIA FOR DIFFERENTIATION CHAPTER 1 Superior and Inferior Peoples ix xi xiii 1 53 55 CHAPTER 2 ...
... stereotypes somehow do exist out there in the ' real ' world . Even the most refined scholar who would never dare enter such a word in his or her professional work lapses in or back to ' primitive ethnography ' when going abroad and ...
... stereotypes and relations , particularly hostile relations between states . It is a truism that morale is a key factor in warfare and morale is determined in large part by the views both sides have of the other and themselves . Such ...
... Stereotypes Stick ? " in Wistrich , Demonizing the Other , 31-32 , esp . 33. A serious difficulty in this definition ... stereotypical as described under ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) . Moreover , the definition , but not the accom- panying ...
... stereotypes and commonplaces that they deny the individuality of members of a group . 103 " The X - people are thieves " is a state- ment that denies the certainty that the majority of them are perfectly honest . When we come to ...