Before Color Prejudice

Name: Before Color Prejudice
Brand: Harvard University Press
SKU: 9780674063815
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The Ancient View of Blacks

Автор: Frank M Snowden

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Harvard University Press

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In this richly illustrated account of black-white contacts from the Pharaohs to the Caesars, Frank S...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Frank M Snowden

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

1991

страници

176

EAN

9780674063815

ISBN

0674063813

Enbook ID

04112558

Издател

Harvard University Press

Теглоt

320

Размери

228 x 151 x 15

Пълно описание

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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