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Author(s): Denise Eileen McCoskey
ISBN(s): 9780755697854, 0755697855
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 1.32 MB
Year: 2021
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0755697855 
ISBN 13: 9780755697854
Author: Denise Eileen Mccoskey

How do different cultures think about race? In the modern era, racial distinctiveness has been assessed primarily in terms of a person’s physical appearance. But it was not always so. As Denise McCoskey shows, the ancient Greeks and Romans did not use skin colour as the basis for categorising ethnic disparity. The colour of one’s skin lies at the foundation of racial variability today because it was used during the heyday of European exploration and colonialism to construct a hierarchy of civilizations and then justify slavery and other forms of economic exploitation. Assumptions about race thus have to take into account factors other than mere physiognomy. This is particularly true in relation to the classical world. In fifth century Athens, racial theory during the Persian Wars produced the categories ‘Greek’ and ‘Barbarian’, and set them in brutal opposition to one another: a process that could be as intense and destructive as ‘black and ‘white’ in our own age. Ideas about race in antiquity were therefore completely distinct but as closely bound to political and historical contexts as those that came later. This provocative book boldly explores the complex matrices of race – and the differing interpretations of ancient and modern – across epic, tragedy and the novel. Ranging from Theocritus to Toni Morrison, and from Tacitus and Pliny to Bernal’s seminal study Black Athena, this is a powerful and original new assessment.

Race Antiquity and Its Legacy 1st Table of contents:

Chapter I: Racial Theory
A world of difference
The ancient environmental theory
Becoming Greek
The Athenian fifth century
The rhapsode of the oikumene
From ‘Hellenes’ to Hellenism
Alexander’s one world?
Becoming Roman
Racial formation and Roman empire
Gauls and Germans

Chapter II: Race as Social Practice
Material culture and racial formation
Egypt under the Ptolemies
Greeks and Egyptians
Racial governmentality
Racial subjectivity
Family in the colonial contest
Egypt under Roman rule
Marriage and army in Roman Egypt
Racial formation and the ancient city
Ancient Jewish identity
The multicultural city boils over
Racial formation and its discontents

Chapter III: Racial Representations
Mapping the self
Viewing the ‘other’
Persians and pseudo-Persians
Staging the ‘other’
Voicing the ‘other’
Displaying the defeated ‘other’
‘Becoming’ the ‘other’

Chapter IV: Whose History?
Coming to terms with Black Athena
Coming to terms with ‘black’ Athena
Coming to terms with the ancient Egyptians
From ancient to modern empire
Coming to terms with Roman conquest
Setting new terms: Classica Africana

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