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Proto-racism in Graeco-Roman antiquity

World Archaeology, 2006
In spite of the usual assumption that racism is a form of prejudice which developed in recent history, it is argued here that prototypes of racism were prevalent in Greek and Roman thinking. Racism here is taken as representing a form of rationalizing and systematically justifying various forms of prejudice, a conceptual process which was part of the ...
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Inquisitorial Ideology at Work in an Auto De Fe, 1680: Religion in the Context of Proto-Racism

Journal of Early Modern History, 2006
AbstractThe article explores inquisitorial ideology as functionaries of the Spanish Inquisition represented and understood it in the late seventeenth century. My analysis focuses on the official account of and sermon delivered at a monumental auto de fe celebrated in Madrid in 1680. I contend that in the process of demonizing Jews and Judaism, the auto
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Introduction: Recovering the Contexts of Early Modern Proto-Racism

2018
The Renaissance became at once a period that marked a turning point in race history and an era whose role in racism has been obscured in the interest of arguments insisting on a divide between early modern and modern ideas of race. Dismissals of considerations of race in the Renaissance, often buttressed by assertions of anachronism, may satisfy ...
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Conclusion: A New Theory of Pre-Modern or Proto-Racism

2018
The Conclusion elaborates on a new theory of pre-modern racism, demonstrating the metaphysical rather than biological underpinnings of Renaissance Europeans’ proto-racist ideology while underscoring how such logic, applied to Jews and Turks (as well as those defined as “black”), drew upon authorities that were uniformly theological, philosophical, or ...
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Proto-Racism

The Classical Review, 2005
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