The Invention of Racism in Classical AntiquityThere 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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... Jewish sources whatever the language because the Jews never became part of mainstream Greek and Roman society . It is not my aim to compare the Graeco - Roman world with contemporary and non - Western societies . The literature on these ...
... Jews looked like their non - Jewish neighbors . Nobody would deny that the prejudices against Jews , Gypsies , and other groups constituted a form of racism . The rac- ists themselves were convinced that these groups belonged to another ...
... Jews in the 1930s were baptized , and regarded themselves as German Christians , while the Nazi race laws regarded them as Jews . Communal identity is not necessarily a matter of consensus . To 67 Lord Simon , cited by Lord Fraser ...
... Jews is discussed in chapter 13 as part of these considerations . Jews lived in substantial numbers in the Diaspora and Judaea was part of the Roman Empire from the first century B.C. till the Moslem conquest . Jews are relevant for the ...
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