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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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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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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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