Race Antiquity and Its Legacy

Name: Race Antiquity and Its Legacy
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ISBN: 9780195381887

ISBN-10: 0195381882

ISBN-13: 9780195381887

Edition: 2012

Authors: Denise Eileen McCoskey

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The very ubiquity of race and racial discussions encourages the general public to accept the power it exerts as natural and to allow the process by which it has assumed such authority to remain unquestioned. In this study, Denise McCoskey explains the position of race today by unveiling its relation to structures of thought and practice in classical antiquity. This study thus attempts both to account for the role of race in the classical world and also to trace the intricate ways Greek and Roman racial ideologies continue to resonate in modern life. McCoskey uncovers the assorted frameworks that organized and classified human diversity more fundamentally in antiquity. Along the way, she…

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 196
Size: 8.40" wide x 5.40" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Foreword



Introduction


Racial formation


Blacks in antiquity


Lost in translation


Sight unseen



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


Alexanders one world?


Becoming Roman


Racial formation and Roman empire


Gauls and Germans



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



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'



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


Conclusion: coming to terms with the classical past


Afterword


Some Suggestions for Further Reading


Notes


Index