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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Benjamin Isaac. already observed . It is also an extremely delicate topic because of the current sensitivity to all ... already been subsequent monographs by A. N. Sherwin - White . Racial Prejudice in Imperial Rome ( Cambridge , 1967 ) ...
... already observed above , this definition is intended to be used in cases of racial discrimination brought before the court . As such it serves a practical purpose and may well serve the legal profession and the courts satisfactorily in ...
... already by Darwin himself . The Descent of Man ( 1877 ) , 174 ; ( 1989 ) , 180f .: " there is the greatest possible diversity among capable judges whether he should be classed as a single species or race , or as two ( Viery ) , as three ...
... already exist among us . However , this last set of ideas on linear progress and increasing superiority belongs to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . " It should therefore not be part of a study of the ancient world . It is ...