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Race and citizen identity in the classical Athenian democracy / Susan Lape.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lape, Susan, 1965- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Citizenship--Greece--Athens--History--To 1500.
- Citizenship.
- Democracy--Greece--Athens--History--To 1500.
- Democracy.
- Athens (Greece)--Race relations--History.
- Athens (Greece).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 341 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Other Title:
- Race & Citizen Identity in the Classical Athenian Democracy
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Race and Citizen Identity in the Classical Athenian Democracy, Susan Lape demonstrates how a race ideology grounded citizen identity. Although this ideology did not manifest itself in a fully developed race myth, its study offers insight into the causes and conditions that can give rise to race and racisms in both modern and pre-modern cultures. In the Athenian context, racial citizenship emerged because it both defined and justified those who were entitled to share in the political, symbolic, and socioeconomic goods of Athenian citizenship. By investigating Athenian law, drama, and citizenship practices, this study shows how citizen identity worked in practice to consolidate national unity and to account for past Athenian achievements. It also considers how Athenian identity narratives fuelled Herodotus' and Thucydides' understanding of history and causation.
- Contents:
- Theorizing citizen identity
- The rhetoric of racial citizenship
- Euripides' "Ion" and the family romance of Athenian racialism
- Athenian identity in history and as history identity and history
- Trials of citizen identity : policing and producing the racial frontier
- Myths and realities of racial citizenship.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-330) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-20403-8
- 0-511-73933-8
- 1-282-52578-6
- 9786612525780
- 0-511-67802-9
- 0-511-68125-9
- 0-511-67676-X
- 0-511-68323-5
- 0-511-67602-6
- 0-511-67927-0
- OCLC:
- 609860828
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