The origins of racism in the west /
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Benjamin Isaac, Joseph Ziegler, Miriam Eliav-Feldon
- Racism: a rationalization of prejudice in Greece and Rome / Benjamin Isaac
- The invention of Persia in classical Athens / H.A. Shapiro
- Racism, color symbolism, and color prejudice / David Goldenberg
- Early Christian universalism and modern forms of racism / Denise Kimber Buell
- Illustrating ethnicity in the Middle Ages / Robert Bartlett
- Proto-racial thought in medieval science / Peter Biller
- Physiognomy, science, and proto-racism 1200-1500 / Joseph Ziegler
- Noble dogs, noble blood: the invention of the concept of race in the late Middle Ages / Charles de Miramon
- The carnal knowing of a coloured body: sleeping with Arabs and blacks in the European imagination, 1300-1500 / Valentine Groebner
- Was there race before modernity? The example of 'Jewish' blood in late medieval Spain / David Nirenberg
- Religion and race: Protestant and Catholic discourses on Jewish conversions in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia
- Vagrants or vermin? Attitudes towards Gypsies in early modern Europe / Miriam Eliav-Feldon
- The peopling of the New World: ethnos, race and empire in the early-modern world / Anthony Pagden
- Demons, stars, and the imagination: the early modern body in the tropics / Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra.