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Author : Frank M. Snowden
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : History
ISBN : 0674076265
Investigates the participation of black Africans, usually referred to as "Ethiopians," by the Greek and Romans, in classical civilization, concluding that they were accepted by pagans and Christians without prejudice.
Author : Frank M. Snowden
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 0674063813
In this account of black-white contacts from the Pharaohs to the Caesars, Snowden shows that the ancients did not discriminate against blacks because of their color. He sheds light on the reasons for the absence in antiquity of virulent color prejudice and for the difference in attitudes of whites toward blacks in ancient and modern societies.
Author : Sarah F. Derbew
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781108495288
A bold and brilliant new treatment of blackness in ancient Greek literature and visual culture as well as modern reception.
Author : Edwin M. Yamauchi
Publisher : MSU Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015053099027
North American scholars of archaeology, geology, anthropology, linguistics, and other fields present ten essays addressing historical research and archaeology under way in Egypt, North Africa, the Sudan, and the Horn of Africa. Contributors attempt to show that Egyptian contacts with Africa to the south were culturally significant and that the region was an ethnic and cultural mosaic, among other themes. c. Book News Inc.
Author : Ivan Van Sertima
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Africa
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005566455
This unique volume provides an overview of the black queens, madonnas, and goddesses who dominated the history and imagination of ancient times. The authors have concentrated on Ethiopia and Egypt because the documents of the Nile Valley are voluminous compared to the sketchier records in other parts of Africa, but also because the imagination of the world, not just that of Africa, was haunted by these women. They are just as prominent a feature of European mythology as of African reality. The book is divided into three parts: Ethiopia and Egyptian Queens and Goddesses; Black Women in Ancient Art; and Conquerors and Courtesans. This second edition contains two new chapters, one on Hypatia and women's rights in ancient Egypt, and the other on the diffusion into Europe of Isis, the African goddess of Nile Valley civilizations.
Author : Valeriya Kozlovskaya
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107019515
The Northern Black Sea in Antiquity brings together the latest research on an important region of the ancient Mediterranean world.
Author : Frank M. Snowden (Jr..)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:253666560
Author : Benjamin Isaac
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400849567
There was racism in the ancient world, after all. This groundbreaking book refutes the common belief that the ancient Greeks and Romans harbored "ethnic and cultural," but not racial, prejudice. It does so by comprehensively tracing the intellectual origins of racism back to classical antiquity. Benjamin Isaac's systematic analysis of ancient social prejudices and stereotypes reveals that some of those represent prototypes of racism--or proto-racism--which in turn inspired the early modern authors who developed the more familiar racist ideas. He considers the literature from classical Greece to late antiquity in a quest for the various forms of the discriminatory stereotypes and social hatred that have played such an important role in recent history and continue to do so in modern society. Magisterial in scope and scholarship, and engagingly written, The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity further suggests that an understanding of ancient attitudes toward other peoples sheds light not only on Greco-Roman imperialism and the ideology of enslavement (and the concomitant integration or non-integration) of foreigners in those societies, but also on the disintegration of the Roman Empire and on more recent imperialism as well. The first part considers general themes in the history of discrimination; the second provides a detailed analysis of proto-racism and prejudices toward particular groups of foreigners in the Greco-Roman world. The last chapter concerns Jews in the ancient world, thus placing anti-Semitism in a broader context.
Author : F.M. [Jr.]. SNOWDEN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:884831718
Author : Denise Eileen McCoskey
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : UCSD:31822039336052
"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 highlights the noteworthy intersections of race with other important social structures, such as gender and class. Underlining the role of race in shaping the ancient world, she ultimately turns to the influence of ancient racial formation on the modern world as well, an influence mediated by the receptions and appropriations of classical antiquity, borrowings that serve to shore up modernity and its continuing, albeit complex, juxtapositions of past and present. In this deft study, McCoskey provides a touchstone for thinking more critically about race's many sites of operation in both ancient and modern eras."--Publisher's description.
Author : Runoko RASHIDI
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0993503683
Author : William E. Alt,Betty L. Alt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313065132
This overview explores the use of black people, either through coercion or enticement, in the armed forces of predominantly white societies in times of crisis when the supply of white soldiers was exhausted or when whites refused to fill the ranks of a wartime army. A chronological review, the study begins with references to Biblical armies and ends with the technological environment of the modern world, looking at how blacks were employed, exploited or rewarded for their service over the centuries. While the balance sheet is mixed, military institutions have proven to be leaders in integration and equality for blacks both in the United States and in Europe. Inequality still exists in the modern American military; however, the authors contend, it is more likely to be based upon educational disparities than on the color of a soldier's skin. African American soldiers played a significant role in the creation and expansion of the United States. The authors write about conquistadors who utilized blacks as soldier slaves. They recount the stories of the black men who fought during the Revolutionary War. They detail the experience of the Buffalo Soldiers in securing and protecting the western wilderness and follow the black soldier fighting alongside Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders. From the decks of the battleship ^IMaine^R to the Philippine Islands, from the hills of Vietnam and the deserts of the Middle East, and, finally, to the all-volunteer army, this book reveals the impact that black soldiers have made on American history.
Author : Frank M. Snowden (Jr)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Civilization, Greco-Roman
ISBN : OCLC:1374255386
Author : Patrice D. Rankine
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780299220037
In this groundbreaking work, Patrice D. Rankine asserts that the classics need not be a mark of Eurocentrism, as they have long been considered. Instead, the classical tradition can be part of a self-conscious, prideful approach to African American culture, esthetics, and identity. Ulysses in Black demonstrates that, similar to their white counterparts, African American authors have been students of classical languages, literature, and mythologies by such writers as Homer, Euripides, and Seneca. Ulysses in Black closely analyzes classical themes (the nature of love and its relationship to the social, Dionysus in myth as a parallel to the black protagonist in the American scene, misplaced Ulyssean manhood) as seen in the works of such African American writers as Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, and Countee Cullen. Rankine finds that the merging of a black esthetic with the classics—contrary to expectations throughout American culture—has often been a radical addressing of concerns including violence against blacks, racism, and oppression. Ultimately, this unique study of black classicism becomes an exploration of America’s broader cultural integrity, one that is inclusive and historic. Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine
Author : Jonathan M. Hall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0521789990
In this book Jonathan Hall seeks to demonstrate that the ethnic groups of ancient Greece, like many ethnic groups throughout the world today, were not ultimately racial, linguistic, religious or cultural groups, but social groups whose 'origins' in extraneous territories were just as often imagined as they were real. Adopting an explicitly anthropological point of view, he examines the evidence of literature, archaeology and linguistics to elucidate the nature of ethnic identity in ancient Greece. Rather than treating Greek ethnic groups as 'natural' or 'essential' - let alone 'racial' - entities, he emphasises the active, constructive and dynamic role of ethnography, genealogy, material culture and language in shaping ethnic consciousness. An introductory chapter outlines the history of the study of ethnicity in Greek antiquity.
