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| Author(s): |
Félix Jácome Neto
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| Affiliation: | [1] Universidade de São Paulo - Brasil
Total Affiliations: 1
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | Revista Brasileira de História; v. 40, n. 84, p. 21-41, 2020-08-21. |
| Abstract | |
ABSTRACT This article discusses scholars who have been advocating the concepts of race and racism to explain cultural prejudices in ancient Greece and Rome. More precisely, this study debates the arguments for the case of an ancient racist or proto-racist Greece elaborated on by Benjamin Isaac (2004) in The Invention of Racism in Antiquity and Susan Lape (2010) in Race and Citizen Identity in the Classical Athenian Democracy. Thus, for this historiographical perspective, there is much more continuity between ancient and modern racism than we had assumed. This article highlights certain conceptual and argumentative flaws in this approach, maintaining that ethnic relations in ancient Greece are better explained as non-hereditary forms of cultural prejudice rather than as racism, which has a specific history related to European colonization and slave trade. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 19/07542-0 - Household space and city space in Aristophanes and Euripides |
| Grantee: | Félix Jácome Neto |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor |
| FAPESP's process: | 18/17414-6 - The theme of crisis and salvation of the city in Euripides and Aristophanes |
| Grantee: | Félix Jácome Neto |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral |