The invention of race in the European Middle Ages

La 4e de couv. indique : "In The invention of race in the European Middle Ages , Geraldine Heng questions the common assumption that race and racisms only began in the modern era. Examining Europe's encounters with Jews, Muslims, Africans, Native Americans, Mongols, and the Romani ('G...

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Auteur principal : Heng Geraldine (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : The invention of race in the European Middle Ages / Geraldine Heng
Publié : Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xiii-493 p.)
Sujets :
  • Inventions/reinventions: race studies, modernity, and the Middle Ages
  • State/nation: a case study of the racial state: Jews as internal minority in England
  • War/empire: race figures in the international contest: the Islamic "Saracen"
  • Color: epidermal race, fantasmatic race: blackness and Africa in the racial sensorium
  • World I: a global race in the European imaginary: Native Americans in the North Atlantic
  • World II: the Mongol Empire: global race as absolute power
  • World III: "Gypsies": a global race in diaspora, a slave race for the centuries