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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... existence of the work by Christian Delacampagne entitled L'invention du racisme : Antiquité et Moyen Age ( Paris , 1983 ) . I regret not having acknowledged this book as it has a similar title and considers the same general theme . July ...
... existence of racism in the United States did not prevent the abolition of slavery and the gradual emancipation of the blacks in that country . I assume therefore that it is illuminating to study ideas and attitudes in their own right ...
... existence of races . Yet , Benedict largely followed the opinions of her teacher , Franz Boas , who , certainly no racist , in The Mind of Primitive Man ( 1911 ) argued for the precedence of culture over race . Yet he too was ambivalent ...
... existence of nonwestern or ancient racism , for the phrase " stable inherited characters deriving from separate racial stocks " clearly suggests the biological determinism which characterizes modern racism . A topic which it will not be ...
... existence of ethnic prejudice or xenophobia in antiquity , even though there may be marked differences in the evaluation of these phenomena , but the existence of proto - racism is not obvious . First , it is important to note that one ...