Pre-modern conceptions of whiteness
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Pre-modern conceptions of whiteness
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The description of populations as white in reference to their skin colour predates and is distinct from the race categories constructed from the 17th century onward. Coloured terminology is occasionally found in Graeco-Roman ethnography and other ancient and medieval sources, but these societies did not have any notion of a white or pan-European race. In Graeco-Roman society whiteness was a somatic norm, although this norm could be rejected and it did not coincide with any system of discriminati
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Pre-modern conceptions of whiteness
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-modern_conceptions_of_whiteness
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2022-06-20T19:47:35Z
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2024-09-10T00:22:04Z
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