Professor Hannah Čulík-Baird’s new review of Sarah F. Derbew’s Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity (2022), has been published today.
Sarah Derbew’s Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity (2022) is a sharp and sensitive exploration of the rootedness of our understandings in unexamined prejudices and—by means of a rich, ambitiously wide-ranging, and theoretically-engaged reading of black characters in Greek art and literature from the 5th c. BCE to the 4th c. CE—a powerful refutation of the invisibility,marginality, and inherent inferiority attributed to ancient black people by classical scholarship.
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