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The Cambridge companion to classics and race / edited by Rosa Andújar, Elena Giusti, Jackie Murray.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Andújar, Rosa, editor.
Giusti, Elena, editor.
Murray, Jackie, editor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Race in literature.
Classical literature--History and criticism.
Classical literature.
Rome--Race relations--History.
Rome.
Greece--Race relations--History--To 1500.
Greece.
Place of Publication:
Cambridge University Press
Summary:
"What was 'race' in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds? How did Classics become the province of dead 'White' men? This book explores the different manifestations of 'race' across Graeco-Roman antiquity as well as how the field of Classics became infused with racial ideologies in the modern world"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Language and race / Katherine McDonald
Race in ancient Greek visual and material culture / Naoíse Mac Sweeney
Staging race in Greek drama / Rosa Andújar
Plato and Aristotle on race, racecraft and politics / David Kaufman
Race, gender, and genocide in Apollonius' Argonautica / Jackie Murray
Race and slavery in Roman comedy / Mathias Hanses
Sensing brown in the Roman empire / Dan-El Padilla Peralta
Ethnographic discourses : Rome's racialized Africa / Elena Giusti
Whitish supremacy : thinking with skin in Roman Greece / Tim Whitmarsh
Race and religion in late antiquity / Yonatan Binyam
Navigating classics and negotiating indigeneity from Aristotle to the present / Ashley Lance
Historiography of art / Katherine Harloe
Anti-semitism and the foundations of classical scholarship / Simon Goldhill
Black Athena/Black Athenians / Maghan Keita
Race and historical writing in an age of empire / Phiroze Vasunia
Modern scientific race and the classical / Rebecca Futo Kennedy
Papyrology and race / Roberta Mazza
Bint Al-Nil : on the modern racing of ancient Egypt / Katherine Blouin
Translation, privilege and racecraft in classics / Shelley Haley
Culture and race in classical reception : West African adaptations of Greek tragedy / Olakunbi Olasope
Classical reception in/beyond Asia / Kelly Nguyen
Graeco-Roman antiquity and white nationalist conceptions of race / Curtis Dozier
Inclusion, diaspora, colonialism : movements in global classics / J. Mira Seo
Nation, whiteness, classical antiquity : another fateful triangle / Patrice Rankine.
ISBN:
1-009-29511-X

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