Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient View of BlacksHarvard University Press, 1983 - 164 стор. 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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Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient View of Blacks Frank M. Snowden Обмежений попередній перегляд - 1983 |
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Africa in Antiquity African blacks Agatharchides Alexandria ancient world ANET appear artists Ashmolean Museum Ashurbanipal Assyrian beauty Berlin black and white Blacks in Antiquity Blemmyes Carthage Cataract classical color prejudice Courtès dark depicted Desanges Diodorus early Christian Egypt Egyptian Esarhaddon Ethiopians Garamantes Gebelein Greco-Roman Greek Greek and Roman Hadrumetum hair Herodotus Ibid image of blacks inhabitants Inscriptions Isiac Josephus king Kingdom of Kush Kushites London Luxorius Mediterranean mercenaries Meroë military modern mosaic Moses Napatan National du Bardo Naturalis historia Naukratis Negro Negroid Negroid type northwest Africa nose Nubia Origen pharaohs physical characteristics plate Pliny Pliny Naturalis historia population pronounced Negroid Ptolemies queen racial mixture Recherches Rome ruler scene Septimius Severus sixth century B.C. skin color slave slavery Snowden somatic norm image southern Staatliche Museen Strabo suggests Taharqa terracotta thick lips third century B.C. tion Twenty-fifth Dynasty Vercoutter view of blacks Vita York
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