Race in Antiquity, with Denise McCoskey
Sep 27, 2021 ·
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It cannot be said enough that the Greeks and Romans did not view race the way we do today. Most notably, they did not use skin colour as a basis...
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It cannot be said enough that the Greeks and Romans did not view race the way we do today. Most notably, they did not use skin colour as a basis for dividing people into racial categories. In this podcast, Shivaike talks to Denise McCoskey, Associate Professor of Classics and Black World Studies at Miami University, about what race meant in the ancient world. How - and why - was race used as a concept in Greek and Roman times? And how do discussions about the Greeks and Romans help us to interrogate our own modern understanding of race?
To find out more about this topic, check out the reading list on our website: https://www.khameleonproductions.org/race-in-antiquity
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To find out more about this topic, check out the reading list on our website: https://www.khameleonproductions.org/race-in-antiquity
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