Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient View of Blacks

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Harvard University Press, 1991 - 164 стор.
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In this richly illustrated account of black-white contacts from the Pharaohs to the Caesars, Frank Snowden demonstrates that the ancients did not discriminate against blacks because of their color.

For three thousand years Mediterranean whites intermittently came in contact with African blacks in commerce and war, and left a record of these encounters in art and in written documents. The blacks--most commonly known as Kushites, Ethiopians, or Nubians--were redoubtable warriors and commanded the respect of their white adversaries. The overall view of blacks was highly favorable. In science, philosophy, and religion color was not the basis of theories concerning inferior peoples. And early Christianity saw in the black man a dramatic symbol of its catholic mission.

This book 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.

 

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Highly recommended to anyone who thinks humans have always been racist, and to anyone who has to deal with people who don't understand that racism is a historically recent idea. Читати огляд повністю

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Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient View of Blacks
Frank M. Snowden,Professor Frank Snowden
Перегляд фрагмента - 1983
Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient View of Blacks
Frank M. Snowden,Professor Frank Snowden
Перегляд фрагмента - 1983
Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient View of Blacks
Frank M. Snowden,Professor Frank Snowden
Перегляд фрагмента - 1983

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Про автора (1991)

Frank M. Snowden, Jr., was Professor of Classics, Emeritus, at Howard University.

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НазваBefore Color Prejudice: The Ancient View of Blacks
АвторFrank M. Snowden
Виданняілюстроване, передрук, виправлене
ВидавецьHarvard University Press, 1991
ISBN0674063813, 9780674063815
Обсяг164 стор.
  
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