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Race: antiquity and its legacy

Race: antiquity and its legacy
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ISBN 1350125008 (softcover)
9781350125001 (softcover)
Author McCoskey, Denise Eileen 1968-
Title Race : antiquity and its legacy / Denise Eileen McCoskey
Publisher London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2012
Physical desc. x, 250 pages ; 22 cm.
Series Ancients and moderns series
Note First published in Great Britain by I.B. Tauris, 2012. This printing, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-242) and index.
Contents 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 -- Alexander's 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.
Subject Race discrimination -- Greece -- History -- To 1500
Race discrimination -- Rome -- History
Race relations -- History
Civilization -- Greek influences
Civilization -- Roman influences
Greece -- Race relations -- History
Rome -- Race relations -- History
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