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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... follows Isaac , Benjamin H. The invention of racism in classical antiquity / Benjamin Isaac . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0-691-11691-1 ( alk . paper ) 1. Racism - Greece - History - To 1500. 2. Racism ...
... follows from the aims described above . It is di- vided into two parts . The first discusses general concepts and their develop- ment , and the second deals with specific peoples as presented in the literature of the periods considered ...
... follows : " Ever since man began to settle under differ- ent skies and to move out of one climate into another , his nature has undergone changes ... these changes became so great and so evident that one might think that the Negro , the ...
... follows the ancient Greek and Roman tradition of considering their own peoples the best in the world as deter- mined by geography and climate . Thus Kant's aesthetics are defined more nar- rowly and nationalistically than those of ...
... follow an order of priorities which is slightly different from that of many historical studies . This book aims to explore early forms of racism . It is not concerned with race and I will therefore define racism before discussing race ...